Mind your pain: A single-arm feasibility study to assess a smartphone-based interoceptive attention training for patients with chronic low back pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

People commonly cope with chronic low back pain (cLBP) by ignoring and distraction. Can mindful interoceptive exposure to the pain sensation itself and its phenomenological components be an alternative approach?

Methods

Single-arm feasibility study in patients with cLBP using a 2-minute attention exercise guided by a smartphone app several times per day over 8 weeks. We assessed feasibility, pre/post pain, function, and psychological parameters using mixed methods: standard questionnaires, ecological momentary assessment, and exit interviews that included micro-phenomenology technique and subsequent reflexive thematic qualitative analysis.

Results

We enrolled 31 participants, mostly female, mean age 48, the majority had pain for >5 years; 29 completed. Mean

SUBMITTER: Mehling WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500934 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature