NCT03142477

Effects of Therapeutic Touch in Patients With Female Genital Neoplasia: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized controlled prospective study on the use of therapeutic touch in patients diagnosed with gynecological cancer. The patients will be randomized into three groups: control group (will not receive any interventions with therapeutic touch), placebo group (will receive simulated therapeutic touch intervention by individual not knowing this technique) and treatment group(will receive therapeutic touch intervention by a trained therapeutic touch therapist). Two different quality of life questionnaires will be applied (before and after treatment). Levels of cortisol, salivary IgA, hematological indices and telomerase activity before and after the use of therapeutic touch will be compared between groups.

Detailed description

This project is a randomized controlled prospective study on the use of therapeutic touch in patients diagnosed with gynecological cancer. The patients will be randomized into three groups: control group (will not receive any interventions with therapeutic touch), placebo group (will receive simulated therapeutic touch intervention by individual not knowing the practice) and treatment group (will receive therapeutic touch intervention by a trained therapeutic touch therapist). Two different quality of life questionnaires (World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire - WHOQOL-Bref and the quality of life Core-30 questionnaire - EORTC QLQ-C30) from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer will be applied before and after treatment. Levels of cortisol, salivary IgA, hematological indices and telomerase activity before and after the use of therapeutic touch will be compared between groups.

Conditions

• Quality of Life
• Gynecologic Neoplasm
• Gynecologic Cancer
• Palliative Care
• Therapeutic Touch
• Reiki

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaires	Two different quality of life questionnaires (WHOQOL-Bref and EORTC QLQ-C30) will be applied before and after treatment. No true or placebo therapeutic touch intervention will be performed.
OTHER	Placebo therapeutic touch	Placebo therapeutic touch will be done by graduate students without any specific training. The students are instructed to perform the placebo therapeutic touch with no objective intention of improving the patient's health.
OTHER	Therapeutic touch	Therapeutic touch will be done by therapeutic touch trained professionals graduate students without any specific training with the intention of improving the patient's health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2017-05-05
• Last updated: 2017-05-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil