Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:39 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:39 PM
NCT ID:
NCT03411057
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Established patients in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Rheumatology clinic
* Rheumatoid Arthritis per the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2010 classification criteria
* Psoriatic Arthritis per the Classification Criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis (CASPAR) or physician-diagnosis
* Scleroderma per the ACR/EULAR 2013 classification criteria or physician-diagnosis
* New onset of Comorbid anxiety and/or depression
* Participants must speak English
* Participants must be able to attend a weekly (8 weeks total) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course as well as routine follow up appointments in the rheumatology clinic
* Participants must have insurance
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients who routinely perform mindfulness based practices and any other form of meditation, including moving meditations such as yoga
* Patients who are not physically able to sit through weekly sessions that are 2.5 hours in length or a final meditative retreat of 4-hours duration
* Patients with alcohol or substance use disorders within the past 6 months
* Current, or previous history of psychotic disorders or bipolar disorder
* Patients who are actively suicidal
* Patients on greater than 10 mg of prednisone daily on a chronic basis.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
100 Years
Study:
NCT03411057
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03411057