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The Effect of Touch on Pain and Anxiety During the Bone Marrow Biopsy Procedure (Dixon Project)

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Dartmouth Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain, Acute
Anxiety

Treatments

Other: Untrained Touch

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is analyzing the benefit of untrained touch provided during a bone marrow biopsy procedure as compared to performing the procedure without providing it.

Full description

Two protocol-identified licensed nursing aides (LNA) will provide an unstructured simple touch intervention that requires no special training other than being oriented to "rub patient's feet" during the procedure. Data will be collected through patient-reported outcomes to determine if "untrained" touch has therapeutic results in managing a patient's pain and anxiety during a bone marrow biopsy procedure.

Enrollment

46 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients from Norris Cotton Cancer Center who have been scheduled for a bone marrow biopsy at the Outpatient Surgical Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
  2. Subjects must be able to read and write in English to provide informed consent and fill out the questionnaires.

Exclusion criteria

  1. Patients who do not wish to have their feet and lower legs touched during the procedure
  2. Open sores on their feet or lower legs.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

46 participants in 2 patient groups

Untrained Touch Provided
Experimental group
Treatment:
Other: Untrained Touch
Standard of Care
No Intervention group

Trial contacts and locations

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