Distance Healing in Wound Healing

Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2

Conditions studied: Breast Reconstruction Surgery

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00067717

Run by

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

People needed

72

Starts

2003-11-01

Expected to finish

2008-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-10-20

Who can join

Age: 34 and older, up to 64. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Women undergoing major plastic surgery (> 2 hours in length)
• Health status is excellent with no systemic disease, no limitation on activity, no danger of death or disease of one body system, well-controlled underlying disease

You may not qualify if…

• Remove history of breast or other cancers
• History of radiation therapy to the abdomen or any radiation within the past three months
• Non-English speaking
• Unable or unwilling to fill out questionnaires
• Current smoker
• Morbid obesity
• Circulatory inadequacies (i.e., diabetes, hypovolemia)
• Nutritional deficits as evidenced by neutropenia (WBC <2500/ml) or hypoalbuminemia (albumin <3.3mmg/dl) / chart review

Where it is running

• Complementary Medicine Research Institute — San Francisco, California, United States

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