Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01870076
The Effect of Healing Touch on Sleep
Effectiveness of Healing Touch on Sleep, Pain, Anxiety, Anesthesia Emergence, Satisfaction and Cost of Care in Surgical
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 41 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Shriners Hospitals for Children · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 5 Years – 25 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Healing Touch improves measures of sleep the night prior to surgery, thus improving surgery-related morbidity.
Detailed description
Patients are to randomized into one of 4 treatment groups upon enrollment. Depending on randomization group, the study participant receives the treatment the evening before elective surgery. A polysomnographic sleep study is then completed. Plan is to review the effect of the treatment group on sleep quantity and sleep quality.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Healing Touch | |
| BEHAVIORAL | Healing Touch, Sham | |
| BEHAVIORAL | Control, Presence |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-12-12
- Primary completion
- 2017-05-15
- Completion
- 2017-07-03
- First posted
- 2013-06-05
- Last updated
- 2017-11-20
- Results posted
- 2017-11-20
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01870076. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.