Complementary and Alternative Medicine Interventions in Targeting Pain

Summary

This Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial aimed at determining the effectiveness of a modified RR intervention in reducing post-operative pain and psychological symptoms in patients undergoing surgery intervention.

Researches hypothesized that compared to controls patients undergoing modified RR intervention were characterized by

1. improved capability to discriminate emotions from bodily feelings;
2. reduce emotional distress;
3. reduced pain perception.

Moreover, researches hypothesized that (4) these effects were maintained over time.

Conditions

• Quadrantectomies
• Spinal Fusion
• Carotid Stenosis
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Colectomy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

RR intervention

The short psychological intervention consists of a narrative interview and a psychocorporeal intervention. Narrative interview: this is an interview aimed at exploring the experience and awareness of illness. The sharing of the dimension of pain and suffering, the verbalization of emotions, the narration of the history of illness, expectations and fears related to the intervention will be aimed at an emotional and cognitive restructuring of the experience of illness, improving the perception of internal resources and resilience. Psycho-corporeal intervention:it is a training to the psychophysiological technique of the "Relaxation Response" (R.R.) of Hebert Benson (Mind-Body Medical Institute of Havard), aimed at stress management and consequently at reducing the perception of pain

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica dell'Università degli Studi di Torino

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Fondazione CRT

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Antonella Granieri, Professor · Dipartimento di Psicologia dell'Università degli Studi di Torino

• Fanny Guglielmucci, PhD · Dipartimento di Psicologia dell'Università degli Studi di Torino

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-01-31

Primary Completion

2017-06-30

Completion

2017-06-30