Early Staged Consent Before Prostate Biopsy

"The brief mind-body intervention, specifically developed for this study, is a combination of mindfulness meditation with a specific cognitive component of guided imagery. Patient intervention, they will be given headphones connected to an MP4 player in the clinic area to listen to a pre-biopsy mindfulness exercise (10 minutes). They will then be brought into the biopsy procedure room and given a second set of headphones, guiding the patient through the mindfulness intervention during the biopsy procedure (10 minutes)."

Prostate needle biopsy under local anesthesia

Questionnaires completion will be by telephone interview or manual completion of paper or online REDCap instruments, depending on participant preference.