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Distance Healing in Wound Healing

NCT00067717 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2014-10-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Breast Reconstruction Surgery

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Distance healing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marilyn J Schlitz, PhD · California Pacific Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
34 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-05-31
Completion
2008-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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