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Relaxation and Heart Rate Variability

NCT00735618 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2011-12-19

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Summary

Primary:

* To characterize the physiologic changes of the autonomic nervous system, demonstrated by heart rate variability (HRV) high frequency (HF) spectral analysis, before and after a 15 minute, one-time, guided relaxation program for cancer patients.

Secondary:

* To assess whether change of HRV correlates with subjective feeling for anxiety, based on visual analog scale scores.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Guided Relaxation

Following 5 minute questionnaire, 15 minute rest and 5 minute heart rhythm recording, 15 minute relaxation program (listening via headphone to audio recording) to be completed by second heart rhythm recording and same questionnaire. Entire procedure 45-60 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ying Guo, MD · U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Professor

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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