Participate in a Research Study

Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Study

Aloha!  The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is running a mobile app study to see how it impacts different areas of well-being in cancer survivors – namely, anxiety and cancer-related neuropathy.

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We are currently asking people who have been diagnosed with cancer and finished primary treatment if they would like to use a mobile app for mindfulness meditation to see if it impacts anxiety or neuropathy.

Interested participants will be asked to follow the link for either anxiety OR neuropathy and to participate in ONE of the studies, for one time only.

Anxiety study

You will randomly be assigned to begin using the mobile app either immediately or after eight weeks.  There will be 3 timepoints at which you will be asked to complete online questionnaires about your well-being (baseline, 8 weeks later, and 16 weeks later).

To be eligible, you must be:

  1. Experiencing anxiety
  2. 21 years or older
  3. Have completed primary treatment
  4. Have any cancer aside from non-melanoma skin cancer
  5. Not currently practicing meditation regularly
  6. Have a smartphone and access to the internet
  7. Comfortable reading and writing in English
  8. A resident of the U.S.

Download the Anxiety Study flyer (PDF)


Neuropathy study

You will randomly be assigned to begin using the mobile app either immediately or after eight weeks.  There will be 3 timepoints at which you will be asked to complete online questionnaires about your well-being (baseline, 8 weeks later, and 16 weeks later).

To be eligible, you must be:

  1. Have any cancer aside from non-melanoma skin cancer
  2. Experiencing cancer-related neuropathy*, per self-report
  3. 21 years or older
  4. Have completed primary treatment (hormone therapy accepted)
  5. Not currently practicing meditation (no more than one hour per week)
  6. Have a smartphone and access to the internet
  7. A resident of the U.S.

Download the Neuropathy Study flyer (PDF)

*Neuropathy is defined as sensation of numbness, prickling or tingling that can include one or more of the following:

  1. Sharp, jabbing, throbbing or burning pain.
  2. Sensitivity to touch, including loss of sensitivity to hot and cold
  3. Loss of balance, difficulty walking or frequent falls
  4. Clumsiness
  5. Difficulty picking up objects or buttoning your clothes

If interested, please follow the link below for either anxiety OR neuropathy.  If you experience both anxiety and neuropathy, please choose the study you feel is most relevant to you.

Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Study - Anxiety study

OR

Mobile Mindfulness for Cancer Related Neuropathy Study


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