Integrative Medicine Consultation for Patients With Pain or Fatigue

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fatigue; Pain

Treatments: Other: Integrative; Other: Standard

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01058265

08-008497

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with a diagnosis of chronic fatigue or pain benefit minimally from a conventional medical evaluation yet consume a large amount of medical resources and time. The question is to see if patients with a diagnosis of chronic pain or fatigue benefit from an Integrative Medicine medical evaluation conducted by physician who has additional training in Integrative Medicine. Patients who call for a general medical examination with a complaint of chronic fatigue or pain will be set up with the integrative medical specialist or standard general medical evaluation.

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Patients seeking a medical evaluation for a primary complaint of pain or fatigue.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Integrative

Experimental group

Description:

Integrative Medical care is defined as a comprehensive medical evaluation that emphasizes wellness and healing of the whole person as major goals above and beyond suppression of a specific somatic disease. The patient is viewed as a whole person with mind and spirit as well as body and these dimensions are incorporated into diagnosis and treatment plans. An integrative medicine evaluation includes four aspects of health: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Maximum improvement in health is achieved by addressing each aspect through an integrated treatment plan. The evaluation generally takes 90-120 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Integrative

Standard

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard general medical evaluation.

Treatment:

Other: Standard