Mindfulness meditation training to reduce symptom distress in transplant patients: rationale, design, and experience with a recycled waitlist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Solid organ transplant recipients must take immune suppressive medications that have side effects, cause complications, and lead to distressing symptoms that reduce health-related quality of life (QOL). Mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce these symptoms in other patient populations, and it is unlikely to interfere with the immune suppressive medication regimen.

Purpose

This article describes the design and rationale of a clinical trial to determine whether training in mindfulness meditation can reduce depression, anxiety and insomnia after transplantation, and summarizes baseline characteristics of the participants.

Methods

Transplant recipients were randomized in equal numbers to one of three arms: a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) pr

SUBMITTER: Gross CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2818773 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature