Randomized Controlled Trial of the STEIN Protocol: A Neuroplastic Pain Education and Guided Breathing Intervention During Awake Cataract Surgery
- NCT ID
- NCT07715591
- Registry status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Conditions
- Cataract, Cataract (Post-operative Cataract Surgery Follow-up)
Overview
ClinicalTrials.gov lists this study as Recruiting.
Enrollment: 300 participants (Estimated).
What is being studied
- Intervention: Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
- Intervention: Complementary Therapies
- Device: Control
- Intervention: Imagery, Psychotherapy
- Intervention: Mind-Body Therapies
- Device: Music and Guided Imagery
- Device: Music Only
- Intervention: Psychotherapy
- Intervention: Therapeutics
Who may be eligible
- Ages
- Not specified in the registry data
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- No
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the following eligibility criteria.
Inclusion Criteria:
Adults undergoing elective cataract surgery under topical anesthesia who are able to provide informed consent and complete study procedures.
Exclusion Criteria:
Inability to provide informed consent Inability to comply with study procedures Complex or combined cataract surgery General anesthesia Medical, neurologic, psychiatric, or respiratory conditions interfering with study participation Requirement for modified anesthetic protocols Inability to complete postoperative breathing exercises or follow-up assessments
Study locations
1 study location is listed.
Recruiting site status is explicitly provided for 1 location; 1 is listed as Recruiting.
Countries: United States
- California, United States: 1
Sample of listed locations
- Stein Eye Institute - University of California Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States — Recruiting
Study details
- Start date
- June 10, 2026
- Primary completion date
- December 31, 2026
- Completion date
- December 31, 2026
- First posted
- July 20, 2026
Source and update information
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- NCT ID
- NCT07715591
- Registry last updated
- October 2, 2026
- QualifiedStudies registry data refreshed
- October 5, 2026
- QualifiedStudies record fetched
- October 5, 2026
View NCT07715591 on ClinicalTrials.gov
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