Dana DiRenzo discusses a mindful meditation program used for patients with rheumatic diseases.
the study that I'll be talking about is a mobile mindfulness meditation program may improve health related quality of life for patients with rheumatic disease, and this was a pilot study. The goal of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability associate it with a rheumatologist driven use of a widely available smartphone application called com. This was a single arm, pre post intervention study with recruitment over a 10 month period, and we included adults with rheumatic disease and ask them to use the APP for at least five minutes per day or one exercise over a 30 day period. There were 35 participants included, and they tended to be well educated females about 91%. 18 participants completed the full study, and I'll refer to them as full complete. ER's full computers had higher based on levels of stress, anxiety, pain and patient global assessments of disease activity or how they scored their romantic disease. And this is interesting because it may help us to choose target audiences in the future or future participants of the participants who fully completed the program. There were significant improvements in fatigue, with transfer improvements in perceived stress anxiety, sleep disturbance, self efficacy or your ability to manage symptoms and motions related to your rheumatic disease as well as pain. We are excited about the study because it allows us to again assess the feasibility and acceptability of using a non pharmacologic or non medication integrative approach to target health related quality of life for our rheumatic patients, or targeting things that might necessarily respond to traditional medications. Specifically found that using a 30 day mindfulness and meditation program preliminarily led to improvements in mental health, particularly stressed which was our target with transfer, improvement in anxiety and self advocacy, or the ability to manage symptoms and emotions and preliminarily, our study also found that engaging in mindfulness improve symptom ontology, including fatigue and sleep disturbance. Our next steps include refining a mobile mindfulness program targeted to the specific needs of our patients with rheumatic diseases.
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