This study endeavors to implement a brief video-based mindfulness intervention within a clinic setting for women undergoing pelvic examinations, in hopes of reducing state anxiety and pain intensity during pelvic exams and improving overall exam satisfaction and likelihood to return for follow-up exams. This will be a pilot study will take place the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Lowe Foundation Center for Women's Preventative Health Care. There will be a treatment and a control arm, estimated 50 women per group.
Participants will be randomly assigned to either a treatment group or a control group. Treatment group will receive a 5-minute mindful movement video-based intervention before their previously scheduled pelvic exam. Control group will not receive the mindful movement video-based intervention and will instead be given a handout about the benefits of mindfulness to read prior to the pelvic exam. Control group will be given access to the mindfulness intervention via an online link upon completion of participation in the study to ensure they are provided the opportunity to benefit from mindfulness practice. Participants will be recruited from a group of female patients at the Lowe Foundation Center who have already been scheduled for an upcoming pelvic exam. Therefore the pelvic exam procedure itself is standard of care, the experimental piece is the mindfulness intervention before the pelvic exam - either the video, or the written educational materials depending on whether participants are randomly assigned to the treatment or control group.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
5 minute video includes a brief verbal introduction to mindfulness and then guides participants through a mindful movement exercise to facilitate grounding in the present moment and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system.
1 page written educative material about the benefits of mindfulness to serve as a control.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Visual Analogue Scale - Anxiety 1 (Change in Anxiety)
Using an iPad, participant slides a bar on a scale to the right or left to indicate level of anxiety. All the way to the right indicates highest anxiety (100) all the way to the left indicates no anxiety (0). Higher number indicates worse outcome/more anxiety.
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention/procedure
Visual Analogue Scale - Anxiety 2 (Change in Anxiety)
Using an iPad, participant slides a bar on a scale to the right or left to indicate level of anxiety. All the way to the right indicates highest anxiety (100) all the way to the left indicates no anxiety (0). Higher number indicates worse outcome/more anxiety.
Time frame: immediately after the intervention
Visual Analogue Scale - Anxiety 3 (Change in Anxiety)
Using an iPad, participant slides a bar on a scale to the right or left to indicate level of anxiety. All the way to the right indicates highest anxiety (100) all the way to the left indicates no anxiety (0). Higher number indicates worse outcome/more anxiety.
Time frame: immediately after the procedure
Visual Analogue Scale - Pain 1
Using an iPad, participant slides a bar on a scale to the right or left to indicate level of pain. All the way to the right indicates highest pain (100) all the way to the left indicates no pain (0). Higher number indicates worse outcome/more pain.
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention
Visual Analogue Scale - Pain 2
Using an iPad, participant slides a bar on a scale to the right or left to indicate level of pain. All the way to the right indicates highest pain (100) all the way to the left indicates no pain (0). Higher number indicates worse outcome/more pain.
Time frame: immediately after the procedure
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
Depression symptom severity scale; 9 items with a total score ranging from 0-27, higher score means a greater number of depressive symptoms endorsed. Scores of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represent cutpoints for mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depression, respectively.
Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention/procedure
Exam Satisfaction Survey
Assess overall patient satisfaction with exam, and likelihood to attend future appointments
Time frame: immediately after the procedure
Mindfulness Perceptions Survey
Treatment group completes a survey regarding perceptions of mindfulness video
Time frame: immediately after the procedure
Physician Experience Survey
Physician who completes the pelvic exam will rate their experience completing the pelvic exam
Time frame: immediately after the procedure
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