Body Scan Activity on Bone Marrow Transplant Patients and Their Caregivers

The Mindfulness Pilot Project: The Effects of a Body Scan Activity on Bone Marrow Transplant Patients and Their Caregivers

Status

Terminated

Phases

Phase 1

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03611764

Enrollment

Registered

2018-08-02

Start date

2018-04-17

Completion date

2018-08-28

Last updated

2018-10-31

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Conditions

Hematological Malignancy

Brief summary

This study will address whether teaching the Body Scan exercise to cancer patients with hematological malignancies and their caregivers during an inpatient hospitalization improves reported physical and psychological symptoms after a two-week period. Giving patients and caregivers the opportunity to learn mindfulness and the tools to practice on their own is expected to lead to a decrease in stress and anxiety, and help empower patients and caregivers to better cope with stress in the future.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALBody Scan

-All efforts will be made to normalize their experience: for example, the desire to open their eyes, thinking about other things, wanting to move around - these are all normal and participants will be encouraged to become interested in and curious about, and to allow these natural tendencies

OTHERRotterdam Symptom Checklist

* 39 Likert-scale items, including physical and psychological symptoms (30 questions), daily function (8 questions), and overall valuation of life (one question) * For the 30 questions pertaining to symptoms, the four-item Likert scale ranges from 'not at all=1' to 'very much=4'; the higher the total score, the greater the score, the higher the level of distress. The single question pertaining to overall valuation of life asks participants to circle one of the seven items, ranked from extremely poor to excellent

OTHERPractice Logs

-Describe frequency of the Zen Den

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Voluntary & self-selected patients and caregivers * Located on the leukemia/lymphoma/bone marrow transplant floor at Barnes Jewish Hospital

Exclusion criteria

-Patients requiring a language translator or interpreter will be excluded from the study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Measure of distress in patients measured by the RSCL scores	Through 2 weeks	-Inferential statistics will be used to analyze the Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL)
Measure of distress in caregivers measured by the RSCL scores	Through 2 weeks	-Inferential statistics will be used to analyze the Rotterdam Symptom Checklist (RSCL)

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Frequency of body scan practice	Through 2 weeks	-Practice Logs will be used to notate frequency of body scan practice

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026