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

School of Health Sciences Geneva

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Toucher Massage (TM) on the feet; Other: Homedics HM MP RELEX 90 device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04295603

2019-00848

Details and patient eligibility

About

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).

Full 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)

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospitalized for a minimum of two weeks
• Suffering from chronic pain for more than 3 months
• Having sufficient command of French in reading, writing or speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Documented cognitive impairments, and jeopardizing their ability to discern
• Diagnosed with cancer that does interfere with foot massage (extremities metastases)
• Dermatological conditions that interfere with foot massage
• Suffering from major polyneuropathy
• Taking anticoagulants or bleeding disorders
• Being pregnant
• Having a pacemaker

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Toucher Massage intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention for the Experimental Group (EG) includes a massage time of about 15 minutes on the foot area .

Treatment:

Other: Toucher Massage (TM) on the feet

Homedics Machine intervention

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Homedics HM MP RELEX 90 device