The Chopra Center
Carlsbad, California, 92009, United States
Completed
NCT Number: NCT01975415
Digital Medicine in Meditation
This study will investigate the acute response to meditation during a week-long meditation retreat at the Chopra Center as measured by the continuous, simultaneous monitoring of numerous biometric parameters in selected cohorts of experienced and novice meditators during periods of meditation and specific breathing techniques. Comparisons between cohorts as well as over time will allow for the identification of meditation and/or breathing-related changes.
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Conditions
Age range
18 year and older
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Observational
Primary location
About this study
The biometric responses to meditation and breathing techniques will be compared between novice and experienced meditators, as well as initial versus final biometric responses in all participants stratified by cohort. Investigators hypothesize that novice meditators will experience a measurable change in response to mediation over the week-long retreat, whereas experienced meditators will demonstrate a more robust response than novice meditators on the first day of the retreat with less change over the retreat.
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
- Adult over age 18 who are already registered to participate in the week-long "Seduction of the Soul" retreat.
- Capable of providing informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- Chronic requirement for daily use of chronotropically active medications including beta-blockers, non-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers, clonidine or beta-agonist inhalers.
- Implantable pacemaker or cardioverter-defibrillator.
- Known allergy to adhesives.
Treatment and study plan
Primary outcomes
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Blood Pressure
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Non-invasive blood pressure
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ECG
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
5-lead electrocardiogram
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Respiration rate
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Respiration rate
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Heart Rate
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Heart rate
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Oxygen saturation (SpO2)
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Oxygen saturation
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Skin temperature
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Skin temperature
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Heart rate variability
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Variability in heart rate across a period of time.
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EEG
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
14-lead Electroencephalogram
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Stress level
Time frame: Participants will be measured at Day 1 and Day 5 of retreat
Stress level calculated from heart rate variability
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
Scripps Translational Science Institute
Other
Collaborators
- The Chopra Foundation
Registry information
Acronym: DigMed2
Important dates
- Study start
- 2013
- Primary completion
- 2013
- Study completion
- 2013
- First posted
- Nov 4, 2013
- Registry last updated
- Mar 13, 2014
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