University of Utah Undergraduate Research Abstracts, Volume 14, Spring 2014

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COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ABSTRACTS PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON MINDFULNESS-ORIENTED RECOVERY ENHANCEMENT Amy Kenney Eric Garland College of Social Work University of Utah Amy Kenney Eric Garland 130 Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions in theS and presentssignificant threat to public health Individuals who suffer from chronic mental or physical pain and are treated with long-term opioid therapy are at risk of misusing prescription opioids and developing opioid addiction Garland et al 2013 The study Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Chronic Pain Patients Receiving Opioid Therapy Exploration of Cognitive Affective and Physiological Mechanisms iscompleted NIH-funded study previously undertaken by Dr Eric Garland to answer this issue Study findings were positive in favor of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement MORE astreatment for prescription opioid misuse The objective of the current study is to elucidate the psychophysiological mechanisms of MORE to determine how the treatment works via the central and autonomic nervous systems to decrease pain opioid craving and opioid misuse behaviors It is hypothesized that MORE will increase parasympathetic regulation and modify brain indices of motivated attention As part of the project have been engaged in data analysis of the previously collected data through the use ofcomputer program called ACQKnowledge Galvanic skin response skin temperature heart rate zygomatic EMG corrugator EMG EEG and respiration data were collected from 115 study participants The data reflects changes in response before and after MORE intervention in relation to attention to emotional photographs The data is currently displayed in the form of waves have been analyzing the data by transforming the waves into numerical values throughprocess of creating1second baseline extending the baseline over the entire photo creating difference waves integrating over waves finding the difference of photos creating an ensemble average creating second bins over the photo presentation and getting the value for each bin The final values are exported into Excel asnumerical representation of the data After which statistical analysis will be performed to determine how MORE changes central and autonomic nervous system functioning during attention to emotional photographs