Healing Touch or Guided Imagery In Treating Pain, Fatigue, Nausea, and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nausea and Vomiting; Malignant Neoplasm; Anxiety Disorder; Fatigue; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: management of therapy complications; Procedure: standard follow-up care; Procedure: therapeutic touch; Other: questionnaire administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01553578

NCI-2012-00164 (Registry Identifier)

CCCWFU 97511 (Other Identifier)

IRB00018805

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized clinical trial studies healing touch or guided imagery in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Healing touch and guided imagery may help treat complications caused by chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether healing touch or guided imagery is more effective in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if the provision of healing touch or guided imagery during outpatient chemotherapy is associated with decreased pain, fatigue, nausea and anxiety when compared to standard outpatient treatment protocols.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms.

ARM A: Patients receive 30 minutes of healing touch therapy comprising magnetic clearing, pain drains, hands in motion/hands still and mind clearing.

ARM B: Patients listen to guided imagery audiotapes for 30 minutes

ARM C: Patients receive standard of care.

Enrollment: 244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients at the outpatient chemotherapy area will be enrolled without consideration for type of cancer or chemotherapeutic agents to be used

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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244 participants in 3 patient groups

Arm A (healing touch therapy)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients receive 30 minutes of healing touch therapy consisting of magnetic clearing, pain drains, hands in motion/hands still and mind clearing.

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire administration

Behavioral: management of therapy complications

Procedure: therapeutic touch

Behavioral: management of therapy complications

Arm B (guided imagery)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients listen to guided imagery audiotapes for 30 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire administration

Behavioral: management of therapy complications

Behavioral: management of therapy complications

Arm C (standard care)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients receive standard of care.

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire administration

Procedure: standard follow-up care