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Reduction of Claustrophobia and Patient Motion After Training of MRI Personnel in Comfort TalkTM

NCT01563198 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 97712

Last updated 2017-04-14

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Summary

Annually, an estimated 700,000 patients do not complete their scheduled MRI scans because of claustrophobia or inability to hold still. Training staff working in MRI facilities to provide Comfort Talk® promises to enable patients to complete and obtain high quality imaging without medication, which will increase comfort and reduce sedation risks for the patients, and increase efficiency and reduce loss of revenue for the facilities.

Conditions

  • Claustrophobia
  • Complication of Diagnostic Procedure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comfort Talk®

Personnel of MRI units will be trained in advanced rapport skills, patient-centered and hypnoidal language, correct use of suggestions and skills of tension diffusion. This will entail 16 hrs class room work, additional on-site post-training support, and access to a post-training support web module resulting in at least 20 hrs training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tufts Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Boston Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ohio State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hypnalgesics, LLC

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Elvira V Lang, MD · Hypnalgesics, LLC

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-07-31
Completion
2016-02-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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