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NCT Number: NCT00663585

Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Chronic Daily Headache Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Headache Headache Disorders Headache Disorders, Primary Migraine Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Pain Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Chronic Daily Headache, defined as a headache at least 15 days of the month, of which at least 8 are migraines.

Exclusion criteria

1.

  • Severe depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis or dementia that may interfere with ability to participate in a 10 day course
  • Active alcoholism on screening or use of illicit drugs within the last 3 months
  • Already completed a 10 day course
  • Actively involved in another form of meditation over the past 6 months
  • Women who are pregnant, planning pregnancy during trial period, or lactating.

Treatment and study plan

Vipassana Meditation

Behavioral

12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate

Primary outcomes

  1. number of migraine days, number of headache days

    Time frame: 3,6,12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. severity of headaches

    Time frame: 3,6,12 months

  2. quality of life

    Time frame: 3,6,12 months

  3. Heart Rate Variability

    Time frame: 3,6,12 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Johns Hopkins University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2008
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Apr 22, 2008
Registry last updated
Jul 29, 2016

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