Relaxation and Heart Rate Variability

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00735618

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

20

Starts

2008-06-01

Expected to finish

2008-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-12-19

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Written informed consent
• Normal cognition (per treating physician's assessment)

You may not qualify if…

• Dementia
• Psychosis
• Delirium
• Not fluent in English
• Cardiac dysrhythmia
• Inability to lay supine
• Pacemaker

Where it is running

• UT MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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