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Efficacy of Healing Touch in Stressed Neonates

NCT00034008 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2006-08-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this project is to evaluate whether or not Healing Touch therapy (HT) helps to treat the stress of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Healing Touch is a gentle use of human touch - a light, soft placement without moving of the HT therapist's hand on a baby's body - and energy to create balance and relaxation. The goal of HT treatment is to help babies rest better, have less pain and discomfort and to heal more quickly. Healing Touch works along with all the treatments and medicines babies receive as part of ordinary care in the NICU.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Healing Touch

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Sharon I. McDonough-Means, MD · University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Program in Integrative Medicine and Dept. of Pediatrics

  • Iris R. Bell, MD, PhD · University of Arizona, Department of Psychiatry and Program in Integrative Medicine, College of Medicine

  • Rosemarie Bigsbury, ScD, OTR/L · Infant Development Center, Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants' Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine

  • Jane Doussard-Roosevelt, PhD · Department of Human Development, University of Maryland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-07-31
Completion
2004-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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