Mind–Body Interventions for Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Structured Review: Table 1

Morone, Natalia E.; Greco, Carol M.

doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00312.x

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“…The mean number of participants who handed in a diary every week (one page per week) was 18 (range [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. The first three weeks 26, 22, and 23 participants, respectively, handed in a diary.…”

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“I Felt Like a New Person.” The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Older Adults With Chronic Pain: Qualitative Narrative Analysis of Diary Entries

Morone

Lynch

Greco

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The Journal of Pain

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To identify the effects of mindfulness meditation on older adults with chronic low back pain (CLBP) we conducted a qualitative study based on grounded theory and used content analysis of diary entries from older adults who had participated in a clinical trial of an eight week mindfulness meditation program. Participants were 27 adults ≥ 65 years with CLBP of at least moderate severity and of at least three months duration. We found several themes reflecting the beneficial effects of mindfulness meditation on pain, attention, sleep, and achieving well-being. Various methods of pain reduction were used, including distraction, increased body awareness leading to behavior change, better pain coping, and direct pain reduction through meditation. Participants described improved attention skills. A number of participants reported improved sleep latency as well as quality of sleep. Participants described achieving well-being during and after a meditation session that had immediate effects on mood elevation but also long-term global effects on improved quality of life. Several themes were identified related to pain reduction, improved attention, improved sleep, and achieving well-being resulting from mindfulness meditation that suggest it has promising potential as a nonpharmacologic treatment of chronic pain for older adults.Perspective-Community dwelling older adults with chronic low back pain experience numerous benefits from mindfulness meditation including less pain, improved attention, better sleep, more energy, enhanced well-being, and improved quality of life. Additional research is needed to determine how mindfulness meditation works and how it might help with other chronic illnesses.

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“I Felt Like a New Person.” The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Older Adults With Chronic Pain: Qualitative Narrative Analysis of Diary Entries

Morone

Lynch

Greco

et al. 2008

The Journal of Pain

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“…Psychotherapies delivered as part of integrated care models have also been found to be effective in the treatment of depression in primary care settings (Skultety & Zeiss, 2006). Psychological interventions are also effective in the behavioral medicine arena as adjunctive approaches for managing a variety of issues in care for those with primary medical conditions, such as managing pain (Hadjistavropoulos & Fine, 2007;Morone & Greco, 2007) and behavioral aspects of urinary incontinence (Burgio, 1998). They also can provide valuable assistance to older adults adapting to changing life circumstances, improving interpersonal relationships, and/or experiencing sexual concerns, or other issues (APA, 2007a;Hinrichsen, 2008;Hillman, 2012).…”

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Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Older Adults

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2013

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“…Collectively these techniques have shown to be efficacious for acute and chronic pain quality of life (Baird & Sands, 2006;Carroll & Seers, 1998;Morone & Greco, 2007). However, these techniques are not necessarily applicable to individuals with significant cognitive impairment or severe depression (Kaye et al, 2010;Norelli & Harju, 2008).…”

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Geriatric pain management, pharmacological and nonpharmacological considerations.

Kaye

Baluch

Niaz

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Psychology & Neuroscience

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Persistent pain is prevalent in the elderly population, although it is not an inevitable part of aging. It is important to understand how to manage pain effectively in old age, particularly because an increasing number of individuals are becoming older, or living longer. Several problems, less common in younger adults, may complicate the treatment of pain. An accurate pain assessment is required for the most efficient strategy of pain treatment. Challenges to an effective pain assessment include: pain underreporting by patients, atypical manifestations of pain in elderly, age-associated pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic changes to specific drugs, other general age-related changes, and misconceptions about tolerance or addiction to opioids. However, physicians are able to provide geriatric patients with appropriate analgesia by using comprehensive assessment involving a multidisciplinary approach, and the appropriate use of various treatment modalities

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Mind–Body Interventions for Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Structured Review: Table 1

Cited by 224 publications

References 77 publications

“I Felt Like a New Person.” The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Older Adults With Chronic Pain: Qualitative Narrative Analysis of Diary Entries

“I Felt Like a New Person.” The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Older Adults With Chronic Pain: Qualitative Narrative Analysis of Diary Entries

Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Older Adults

Geriatric pain management, pharmacological and nonpharmacological considerations.

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