NCT04295603

Impacts of Touch-massage on the Experience of Patients With Chronic Pain: a Mixed Study.

Impacts of Touch-massage on the Experience of Patients With Chronic Pain and on the Provider-patient Relationship in Inpatient Settings: a Mixed Method Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 82 (actual)
• Sponsor: School of Health Sciences Geneva · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage on the experience of patients with chronic pain. The study takes place in two rehabilitation internal medicine services of the University Hospitals of Geneva at 2 inpatients units with 78 participants (39 per group).

Detailed description

This is a monocentric study with a design of non-randomized cluster trial with an exploratory qualitative part. The treatment is assigned to one of two care units and subjects are allocated to the care unit not according to a randomization process but based on administrative basis. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage (TM) on the experience of patients with chronic pain hospitalized in two rehabilitation internal medicine services. The main objective is to measure the effects of TM on the global impression of change of the perception of pain. The secondary objectives are: 1. Measure the effects on 1. the severity and impact of pain 2. anxiety/depression 3. caregiver-patient interaction 2. Explore the experiences of patients benefiting from TM 3. Explore perceptions, resistance, barriers and facilitators regarding the proposed interventions with the health care teams of the units. The population is patients suffering from chronic pain in two units of the internal medicine rehabilitation service at Beau-Séjour. The two units are similar in terms of care intake and populations cared for. The required sample size is 78 participants (39 per group)

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Toucher Massage (TM) on the feet	The intervention for the Experimental Group (EG) includes a massage time of about 15 minutes (according to current Geneva Hospital practice) on the foot area. At least four sessions will be delivered and spread over two weeks. The TM will be provided by the care team. The training time for the workers corresponds to 2 times 2 hours. In order to be as close as possible to a standardized session, practitioners will benefit from an intervention guide.
OTHER	Homedics HM MP RELEX 90 device	The Control Group (CG) will benefit from an intervention of identical duration. The treatment consists of a foot massage with a Homedics HM MP RELEX 90 device, a heat-free "shiatsu" program, which lasts about 15 minutes. The use of the Homedics device is no more a common treatment than the practice of Touch-Massage. TM involves a therapeutic relationship between caregiver and patient. It is for this reason that we need a comparator that should allow us to keep the aspect of the massage while decreasing the aspect of the therapeutic relationship and therefore offer us an adequate comparator.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2020-03-04
• Last updated: 2023-06-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Switzerland