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Comprehensive Study of Post-surgical Pain After Pectus or Spine Surgery
Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Summary
This will be a prospective study to determine the association between specific genotypes, epigenetics, behavioral, social and biological factors, with the phenotypes, defined by pain perception, postoperative pain, analgesic effects, side effects to perioperative analgesics, chronic postoperative pain, and gene expression in patients following pectus excavatum repair.
Official title: Genetic, Epigenetic, Psychosocial, and Biological Determinants of Post-surgical Pain After Pectus or Spine Surgery
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
8 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
600
Start Date
2018-07-06
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-06-13
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Meditation
Participants assigned to the Meditation intervention will receive focused attention meditation training preoperatively, and encouraged to meditate for 20 minutes per day before surgery. In the postoperative inpatient period, the participants will be offered standard holistic health care, reinforcement of meditation training, and encouragement to practice at least 20 minutes of guided focused-attention meditation with breath as their focus, utilizing the MUSETM headband for bio-feedback, every day during their hospital stay. They will be asked to continue using the MUSETM neurofeedback-assisted meditation after hospital discharge, until their visit to repeat pain testing, at which time they will return the MUSETM headband.
Locations (1)
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States