Distance Healing in Wound Healing

This study has been completed.

First Received: August 25, 2003 Last Updated: August 4, 2008 History of Changes

Sponsor:	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Information provided by:	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00067717

Purpose

This trial examines the impact of patients' knowledge of an experienced distant healer's efforts to heal them on measures of wound healing, psychosocial functioning, and physiological symptoms after plastic surgery.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Breast Reconstruction Surgery	Behavioral: Distance healing Behavioral: Prayer	Phase I Phase II

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Placebo Effects in Distance Healing of Wounds

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Breast Reconstruction Surgery

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM):

Estimated Enrollment:	116
Study Start Date:	November 2003
Study Completion Date:	May 2008
Primary Completion Date:	May 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	34 Years to 64 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women undergoing major plastic surgery (> 2 hours in length)
Health status is excellent with no systemic disease, no limitation on activity, no danger of death or disease of one body system, well-controlled underlying disease

Exclusion Criteria:

Remove history of breast or other cancers
History of radiation therapy to the abdomen or any radiation within the past three months
Non-English speaking
Unable or unwilling to fill out questionnaires
Current smoker
Morbid obesity
Circulatory inadequacies (i.e., diabetes, hypovolemia)
Nutritional deficits as evidenced by neutropenia (WBC <2500/ml) or hypoalbuminemia (albumin <3.3mmg/dl) / chart review

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00067717

Locations

United States, California
Complementary Medicine Research Institute
San Francisco, California, United States, 94115

Sponsors and Collaborators

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Marilyn J Schlitz, PhD

California Pacific Medical Center

More Information

No publications provided

Study ID Numbers:	R21 AT001437, SchlitzMJ
Study First Received:	August 25, 2003
Last Updated:	August 4, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00067717 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM):

breast reconstruction surgery
prayer
distance healing
wound healing

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2009