Feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of remote-delivered abbreviated mindfulness-based cognitive therapy interventions for patients with migraine and depressive symptoms.
Headache April 1, 2025 Elizabeth K Seng, Jacob Hill, Annie Kate Reeder et al.
An abbreviated mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT-brief) delivered remotely by telephone or video was feasible and acceptable for people with migraine and elevated depressive symptoms in an open-label single-arm trial. Sixteen female participants (mean age 45) attended an average of 7.9 out of 8 weekly group classes. Therapist fidelity, session attendance, and client satisfaction all met a priori benchmarks. Usability of the remote system was high. Significant pre- to post-treatment reductions occurred in headache-related disability (median score 63 to 36) and depressive symptoms (median score 8 to 4), though these findings must be interpreted cautiously without a control group.