Safety/Effectiveness Study of a Single Session of Laying-on-of-hands in Various Settings in Japan (SELH)

MOA Health Science Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Signs and Symptoms; Physical Disorders; Personal Satisfaction

Treatments: Procedure: Okada Purifying Therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01316029

MHS-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the symptomatic changes after a single session of laying-on-of-hands in various settings, and to evaluate optimal conditions for the outcomes.

Full description

Laying-on-of-hands is applied in many different situations; however, most reports published previously described its efficacy in a clinical setting, with its administration conducted by a few expert practitioners. This study aimed to determine the symptomatic changes after a single session of the Okada Purifying Therapy, a form of laying-on-of-hands, in various settings, and to analyze factors influencing the outcomes.

Enrollment: 44,587 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• able to receive laying-on-of-hands for 30 minutes or longer from the investigators
• able to self-evaluate the change of their symptoms
• competent to answer the Japanese questionnaires
• aged 16 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• those who did not match the inclusion criteria

Trial design

44,587 participants in 1 patient group

laying-on-of-hands

Description:

44,587 Japanese volunteers with/without illness, who were interested in receiving laying-on-of-hands

Treatment:

Procedure: Okada Purifying Therapy