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Home Based Massage and Relaxation for Sickle Cell Pain

NCT00066079 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2008-08-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of in-home, family-administered massage and in-home relaxation training on measures of physical status and health care utilization in a sample of African American adolescents age 15 years and older and adults with chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease who have been randomly assigned to six sessions of either family-administered massage or progressive muscle relaxation training.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

massage

BEHAVIORAL

relaxation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Cynthia D. Myers, PhD, LMT · The Moffitt Cancer Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-08-31
Primary Completion
2006-11-30
Completion
2006-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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