Meditation Monologue can Reduce Clinical Injection-Related Anxiety: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strategies to reduce anxiety prior to injection procedures are not well understood. The purpose is to determine the effect of a meditation monologue intervention delivered via phone/mobile application on pre-injection anxiety levels among patients undergoing a clinical injection. The following hypothesis was tested: patients who listened to a meditation monologue via phone/mobile application prior to clinical injection would experience less anxiety compared to those who did not.

Methods

A prospective, randomized controlled trial was performed at an orthopedics and sports medicine clinic of a tertiary level medical center in the New England region, USA. Thirty patients scheduled for intra- or peri-articular injections were randomly allocated to intervention (medita

SUBMITTER: Sugimoto D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8082977 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature