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Mindfulness Texting for Medication Adherence and Chronic Pain Management
Integrating Mindfulness and mHealth Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * Reside in the United States * Own or have access to a mobile phone capable of sending and receiving text messages * Have reliable internet access to complete study surveys * Be willing and able to comply with all study procedures and remain available for the duration of the study * Be interested in receiving medication reminders and mindfulness text messages * Be within 2 months of initiating or restarting methadone or buprenorphine treatment for opioid use * Report chronic pain (pain lasting at least 3 months) * Live in the United States Exclusion Criteria: * None
About the study
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of reminder and mindfulness text messages based on integrated Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (ACT+MBRP) on medication adherence and managing craving, pain, mindfulness, and withdrawal symptoms in people taking medications for opioid use disorder and with chronic pain through assessment questions collected six times daily during the course of treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. Do daily medication reminder text messages increase medication adherence for people taking medications for opioid use disorder? 2. To what extent do people engage with the daily mindfulness messages? 3. Do participants receiving a structured curriculum of mindfulness messages delivered twice daily differ from those receiving randomly selected mindfulness messages delivered four times daily in engagement with the intervention? 4. How do the two mindfulness text messaging interventions differ in their effects on intervention engagement, craving, pain, mindfulness, and withdrawal symptoms?
Participants will:
1. Receive daily medication reminder text messages for 12 weeks (i.e., 3 months) 2. Receive either 2 or 4 mindfulness messages per day for 6 weeks 3. Answer brief assessment questions six times per day during the 6-week mindfulness text messaging period 4. Complete questionnaires at enrollment (baseline), once each week during the 6-week mindfulness text messaging period (6 total), immediately after the 6-week mindfulness text messaging period (post-treatment), and 6 weeks after the mindfulness text messaging period ends (follow-up)
What is being tested
- Mindfulness text messages (behavioral)
Sponsor: University of New Mexico · Participants: 60 · Started: Apr 23, 2025
Contact the study team
- Frank Schwebel, PhD · Phone: 505-456-3014
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07711795
Locations in the U.S.
| New Mexico | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.