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Immediate effects of a brief mindfulness-based body scan on patients with chronic pain
Abstract
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has benefits for those with chronic pain. MBSR typically entails an intensive 8-week intervention. The effects of very brief mindfulness interventions are unknown. Among those with chronic pain, the immediate effects of a 10 min mindfulness-based body scan were compared with a control intervention. Fifty-five adult outpatients were randomly assigned to either: (1) mindfulness-based body scan (n = 27) or (2) a reading about natural history (control group, n = 28), provided via a 10 min audio-recording. Interventions were delivered twice across 24 h; once in the clinic and once in participants' 'normal' environment. Immediately before and after listening to the recording, participants rated pain severity, pain related distress, perceived ability for daily activities, perceived likelihood of pain interfering with social relations, and mindfulness. In the clinic, there was a significant reduction in ratings for pain related distress and for pain interfering with social relations for the body scan group compared with the control group (p = 0.005; p = 0.036, respectively). In the normal environment none of the ratings were significantly different between the groups. These data suggest that, in a clinic setting, a brief body scan has immediate benefits for those experiencing chronic pain. These benefits need to be confirmed in the field.
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“A growing body of literature has found that even brief mindfulness-based interventions can reduce reported levels of acute [Zeidan et al., 2012] and chronic pain [Ussher et al., 2014].”
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“In addition, brief MBI (i.e., 5–20 min/session) programs have been found to reduce chronic pain or increase pain tolerance [12,13], benefit cardiovascular and respiratory modulation [14], and help physiological relaxation responses [15].”
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“Considering the effectiveness of MBI in improving psychological outcomes [12,13,14,15,16,17], it is highly possible that MBI may provide beneficial effects in fatigue recovery after a 45 min soccer match.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ussher, M., Spatz, A., Copland, C., Nicolaou, A., Cargill, A., Amini-Tabrizi, N., & McCracken, L. M.
- Affiliations
- St George's, University of London (GB)
- St George's Hospital (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ussher, Michael
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Published
- 2012-11-06
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 127-134
- ISSN
- 0160-7715 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3521
- OpenAlex
- W2038912576
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Keywords
- chronic pain, mindfulness-based stress reduction, brief mindfulness intervention, pain-related distress, pain intensity, social functioning, outpatients
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Quality of Life, Stress, Psychological, Treatment Outcome, Chronic Pain, Mindfulness
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