NCT01518218

Effectiveness of Laying-on-of-hands for Sickle Cell Disease

Effectiveness of Laying-on-of-hands for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease in Africa

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: MOA Health Science Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of 1-year administration of laying-on-of-hands on the morbidity and mortality of patients with sickle cell disease in Africa.

Detailed description

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) have a high risk of premature death in Africa, mainly due to insufficient medical services. SCD patients often visit emergency department and need hospitalization when they suffer from severe pain; however, they manage most of painful episodes at home. Appropriate pain management at home is, therefore, crucial to improve their clinical course and quality of life. Laying-on-of-hands may be a good candidate for home care management, because family member(s) can become a practitioner of laying-on-of-hands without difficulty and administer it to their loved one as an initial treatment whenever necessary. There are no reports concerning the effectiveness of laying-on-of-hands for the outcomes of SCD patients, as far as we have investigated.

Conditions

• Sickle Cell Disease
• Pain Crisis Recurrent
• Anemia
• Infection
• Death

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	laying-on-of-hands	The intervention group received laying-on-of-hands every weekday for 1 year along with conventional medicine. The control group did not undergo any alternatives to OPT.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• Primary completion: 2007-03-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2012-01-25
• Last updated: 2015-04-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Democratic Republic of the Congo