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| Brief Title † | Distant Healing for HIV/AIDS | ||||||||
| Official Title † | Distant Healing Efforts for AIDS by Nurses and "Healers" | ||||||||
| Brief Summary | The purpose of this study is to determine whether individuals praying at a distance (also known as "Distant Healing") can positively affect the health of people with HIV/AIDS. |
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| Detailed Description | Significant numbers of people with HIV/AIDS seek spiritual or “psychic" treatment. Distant healing could potentially be of benefit to large numbers of HIV/AIDS patients, as it is widely available and requires no travel or other activity on the part of the patient. However, the treatment can be costly and has not yet been proven effective in a controlled clinical trial. This study will evaluate the efficacy of distant healing in patients with HIV/AIDS. Participants in this study will be randomly assigned to either the distant healing group or a control group. All participants will have hour-long study visits at entry and Months 6 and 12. At study visits, participants will complete a demographic questionnaire, self-report health and symptom inventory, quality of life assessment, and profile of mood states. Blood will be drawn at each study visit. |
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| Study Type † | Interventional | ||||||||
| Study Design † | Treatment, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study | ||||||||
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| Condition † | HIV Infections AIDS |
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| Intervention † | Behavioral: Non-local/distant healing or prayer | ||||||||
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| Recruitment Status † | Completed | ||||||||
| Enrollment † | 150 | ||||||||
| Start Date † | December 2000 | ||||||||
| Completion Date | December 2003 | ||||||||
| Eligibility Criteria † | Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
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| Gender | Both | ||||||||
| Ages | 18 Years to 65 Years | ||||||||
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers | No | ||||||||
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| Location Countries † | United States | ||||||||
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| NCT ID † | NCT00079534 | ||||||||
| Organization ID | R01 AT000485-01 | ||||||||
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| Study Sponsor † | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) | ||||||||
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| Information Provided By | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) | ||||||||
| Verification Date | August 2006 | ||||||||
| First Received Date † | March 9, 2004 | ||||||||
| Last Updated Date | August 16, 2006 | ||||||||
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