This is a study and a novel approach to clinical trials, testing the feasibility and acceptability of two-stage consent in the context of a trial integrated into routine clinical practice. The investigator will use, as a model, a trial of a brief mind-body intervention) with guided imagery for procedural pain at the time of prostate biopsy. In the two-stage design, patients will first be approached for consent to 1) have their routinely collected clinical data used for research purposes and 2) be randomly selected to be offered an intervention to improve the experience of prostate biopsy. Only patients randomized to the experimental arm will be informed about the benefits and harms of the intervention and will sign a second consent for the experimental treatment. There will be two separate randomizations in this study, one-stage (usual informed consent) vs. two-stage consent and mindfulness intervention vs. control.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
390
The brief mind-body intervention, specifically developed for this study, is a combination of "mindfulness meditation" with a specific cognitive component of "guided imagery". Patient intervention, they will be given headphones connected to an MP4 player in the clinic area to listen to a pre-biopsy mindfulness exercise (10 minutes). They will then be brought into the biopsy procedure room and given a second set of headphones, guiding the patient through the mindfulness intervention during the biopsy procedure (10 minutes).
Prostate needle biopsy under local anesthesia
Questionnaires completion will be by telephone interview or manual completion of paper or online REDCap instruments, depending on participant preference.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
number of patients who sign consent form
Time frame: 2 years
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