Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
36
12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
number of migraine days, number of headache days
Time frame: 3,6,12 months
severity of headaches
Time frame: 3,6,12 months
quality of life
Time frame: 3,6,12 months
Heart Rate Variability
Time frame: 3,6,12 months
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