NCT04868123Completed
Effects of TENS and Mindfulness Meditation in Persons With HIV-related Neuropathy
Pilot Study of Mindfulness Meditation and Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation (TENS) in Persons Living With HIV-related Peripheral Neuropathy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is to explore the effects of transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TENS) and mindfulness meditation in persons living with HIV (PLHIV) and painful neuropathy in the feet.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 36 (actual)
- First submitted
- 25 Apr 2021
- Start date
- 22 Apr 2022
- Primary completion date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Rutgers University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04868123
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 36
- From 22 Apr 2022 to the primary completion date, 7 Jan 2025
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- current opportunistic infection(s)
- dementia
- uncontrolled psychiatric disorder
- musculoskeletal or neurological conditions (other than distal sensory neuropathy) that may affect gait
Lab values
- cluster of differentiation 4 cell (CD4 cell) count \<200 cells/mm3
Other
- wounds or sores on the feet
- pregnancy
Who the study is looking for
- diagnosis of HIV infection currently treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART)
- cluster of differentiation 4 cell (CD4 cell) count of at least 200 cells/mm3
- 18-64 years of age
- able to read and write in English
- means to travel to a study site
- presence of peripheral neuropathy symptoms in feet
- average daily self-reported pain in the feet of at least 3/10 on a 0-10 numerical pain scale
- pain in the feet present for at least the past 3 months
- no changes in medications used to manage pain in the past 4 weeks
- no use of TENS or mindfulness meditation in the prior 6 months
- availability of a mobile phone to receive text messages over the course of the intervention period
Age in the registry: 18 years to 89 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Physical Therapy Program Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Blackwood | United States | Unknown status |
| Rutgers Physical Therapy Program Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newark | United States | Unknown status |
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