Pain Relief for OsteoArthritis Through Combined Treatment (PROACT)
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Brief summary
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This mechanistic clinical trial proposes to test whether a five-day course of mindfulness meditation training (MMT) and tDCS, and their combination, can enhance pain modulatory balance and pain-related brain function, reduce clinical pain, among African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with knee osteoarthritis (OA). This approach will provide evidence that targeting stress and pain-related brain function will reduce OA-related pain and ethnic group differences therein.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03884374
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 317 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Focused Breathing and Attention Training (BAT) Behavioral
- Standard Breathing and Attention Training (BAT) Behavioral
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Device
- Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Device
Behavioral · Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 45 Years to 85 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 12, 2020
- Primary completion
- Feb 27, 2025
- Completion
- Feb 27, 2025
- Last update posted
- Aug 14, 2025
2020 – 2025
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | — |
| University of Florida | Gainesville | Florida | 32610 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 14, 2025 · Synced Sep 4, 2026
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