Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00066079
Home Based Massage and Relaxation for Sickle Cell Pain
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (planned)
- Sponsor
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) · NIH
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 15 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of in-home, family-administered massage and in-home relaxation training on measures of physical status and health care utilization in a sample of African American adolescents age 15 years and older and adults with chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease who have been randomly assigned to six sessions of either family-administered massage or progressive muscle relaxation training.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | massage | |
| BEHAVIORAL | relaxation |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2003-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2006-11-01
- Completion
- 2006-11-01
- First posted
- 2003-08-05
- Last updated
- 2008-08-06
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00066079. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.