Mindfulness and Mechanisms of Pain Processing in Adults with Migraines

成人偏头痛患者的正念和疼痛处理机制

• 批准号: 9115533
• 负责人: Rebecca Erwin Wells
• 金额: $ 13.43万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9115533
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Advisory Committees; Affect; Affective; American; Awareness; Brain region; Chronic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Trials; Cognitive; Complementary Medicine; Control Groups; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Dimensions; Discipline; Education; Emotional; Event; Frequencies; Goals; Grant; Headache; Health; Healthcare; Heating; Integrative Medicine; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Manuscripts; Measures; Meditation; Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Migraine; Mind-Body Intervention; Mission; Modeling; Neurobiology; Outcome; Pain; Pain Measurement; Pain intensity; Pain management; Patients; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Play; Population; Process; Productivity; Randomized Clinical Trials; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Role; Safety; Sensory; Skills Development; Stress; Techniques; Testing; Time; Training; Writing; Yoga; career; career development; clinical efficacy; cognitive process; cohort; cost; cost efficient; design; disability; evidence base; improved; mindfulness; mindfulness meditation; mindfulness-based stress reduction; multidisciplinary; pilot trial; predicting response; prevent; response; responsible research conduct; sensory mechanism; skill acquisition; skills; skills training; statistics; symposium

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed K23 award is to provide the Candidate with the advanced skills and training needed to become an independent investigator evaluating the mechanisms of migraine pain and the efficacy and mechanisms of mind-body interventions for treatment. To facilitate this long-term career goal, the Candidate will examine the sensory and affective responses to experimental pain in migraineurs compared to healthy controls. In addition, the Candidate will assess the impact and mechanisms of an 8-week standardized mind-body intervention, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), on the sensory and affective aspects of clinical and experimental pain in adults with migraines, and determine predictors of clinical efficacy. The Candidate has assembled an expert team of mentors to help her achieve these goals. A comprehensive training plan includes important additional training needed in the neurobiology of pain, state-of-the-art methodologies of the quantitative assessment of pain, statistics, formal coursework, and conferences and seminars addressing grant and manuscript writing, as well as other relevant career development topics. The Candidate has assembled a stellar, multidisciplinary mentorship and advisory team tailored to facilitate her research and training with their combined expertise in pain mechanisms, sensory/pain testing, headache, statistics, mind-body medicine, clinical research, and career development. With their support, she will accomplish the following specific training goals: (1) gain advanced training and knowledge in the neurobiology of pain and headache; (2) develop expertise in the quantitative measurements of pain; (3) expand mind-body medicine knowledge and training skills; (4) improve skills in clinical trial methodology and responsible conduct of research; (5) build on statistical skills with further skill training; (6) continue building profesional development skills. The training plan will be conducted in coordination with a proposed set of studies that build upon the Candidate's preliminary data that demonstrated a beneficial effect of MBSR in adults with migraines. The Candidate's proposed research involves three Specific Aims. Aim 1 is designed to assess response to experimental heat pain (pain intensity, pain unpleasantness, emotional reactivity, and pain catastrophizing) in migraineurs (interictally) vs. healthy controls. Aim 2 seeks to test the impact of MBSR in adults with migraines on clinical headache pain, experimental heat pain, mindfulness, pain acceptance, pain catastrophizing, emotional reactivity and headache-related disability compared to an education control group. Aim 3 is to determine the factors that predict MBSR response on clinical headache pain in migraine patients. Successful completion of these aims will advance the understanding of the mechanisms of migraine pain and of mind- body interventions for migraine, and also may be applicable to other clinical pain conditions. The additional training from this K23 will launch the Candidate's career as an independent clinician-investigator and ultimately a leader in the fields of integrative medicine and headache research.

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的 K23 奖项的目标是为候选人提供成为独立研究者所需的高级技能和培训，以评估偏头痛的机制以及身心干预治疗的功效和机制。为了实现这一长期职业目标，候选人将检查偏头痛患者与健康对照者对实验性疼痛的感觉和情感反应。此外，候选人将评估为期 8 周的标准化身心干预（基于正念的减压 (MBSR)）对偏头痛成人临床和实验疼痛的感觉和情感方面的影响和机制，并确定临床疗效的预测因素。候选人组建了一个专家导师团队来帮助她实现这些目标。全面的培训计划包括疼痛神经生物学所需的重要额外培训、疼痛定量评估的最先进方法、统计学、正式课程、涉及资助和手稿写作的会议和研讨会，以及其他相关的职业发展主题。该候选人组建了一支一流的多学科指导和咨询团队，专门为她的研究和培训提供便利，他们在疼痛机制、感觉/疼痛测试、头痛、统计学、身心医学、临床研究和职业发展方面综合专业知识。在他们的支持下，她将完成以下具体培训目标：（1）获得疼痛和头痛神经生物学方面的高级培训和知识； (2) 发展疼痛定量测量方面的专业知识； (3)拓展身心医学知识和培训技能； (4) 提高临床试验方法和负责任的研究行为方面的技能； (5) 通过进一步的技能培训建立统计技能； （六）持续打造专业发展技能。该培训计划将与一组拟议的研究相协调进行，这些研究以候选人的初步数据为基础，这些数据证明了 MBSR 对患有偏头痛的成人有有益的作用。候选人提议的研究涉及三个具体目标。目标 1 旨在评估偏头痛患者（发作间期）与健康对照组对实验性热痛的反应（疼痛强度、疼痛不愉快、情绪反应性和疼痛灾难化）。目标 2 旨在测试与教育对照组相比，MBSR 对成人偏头痛患者的临床头痛、实验性热痛、正念、疼痛接受、疼痛灾难化、情绪反应和头痛相关残疾的影响。目标 3 是确定预测偏头痛患者临床头痛的 MBSR 反应的因素。成功完成这些目标将促进对偏头痛疼痛机制和偏头痛身心干预的理解，并且也可能适用于其他临床疼痛病症。此次 K23 的额外训练将启动 候选人作为独立临床医生研究员的职业生涯，最终成为综合医学和头痛研究领域的领导者。