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Comfort Talk and Economic Outcomes in MRI

NCT02427737 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2019-09-12

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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 staffs working in MRI facilities to provide Comfort Talk® will enable patients to complete high quality imaging without medication, which will increase satisfaction and comfort while reducing sedation risks for patients, and increase efficiency and reduce loss of revenue for facilities. The effect of such training will be tested at 12 MRI sites in a randomized design. Outcome data will be collected for one year.

Conditions

  • Claustrophobia
  • Complication of Diagnostic Procedure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comfort Talk® Training

Personnel of MRI units is trained in advanced rapport skills, patient-centered and hypnoidal language, correct use of suggestions and skills of tension diffusion. This entails 16 hrs classroom 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

  • Ohio State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Duke University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hypnalgesics, LLC

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Elvira V Lang, MD · Hypnalgesics, LLC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-04-30
Primary Completion
2017-07-31
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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