NCT02194413

Effects of Healing Touch on Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Iowa · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies healing touch or usual care in improving quality of life in patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Healing touch may improve the quality of life of patients undergoing stem cell transplant.

Detailed description

Primary Objectives: I. To estimate the effects of healing touch (HT) vs usual care in the following clinical outcomes of stem cell transplant (SCT) patients; length of hospital stay, days to engraftment, and number of hospital readmissions during 100 days post-transplant. II. To estimate changes in quality of life (QoL) which occur during hospitalization of SCT patients who receive HT vs. usual care. III. To examine differences in effects of HT vs. usual care (UC) in patients receiving related allogeneic (Allo) transplant compared to those receiving autologous (Auto) transplant. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I: Patients receive daily HT sessions comprising pain drain, chakra connection, magnetic clearing, and mind clearing over 30 minutes from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital. ARM II: Patients receive routine nursing care from doctors and nurses from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 100 days.

Conditions

• Anxiety Disorder
• Fatigue
• Hematopoietic/Lymphoid Cancer
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	therapeutic touch	receiving healing touch
OTHER	quality-of-life assessment	Ancillary studies
OTHER	questionnaire administration	Ancillary studies

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-18
• First posted: 2014-07-18
• Last updated: 2017-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States