Effects of Healing Touch on Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

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Conditions studied: Anxiety Disorder, Fatigue, Hematopoietic/Lymphoid Cancer, Pain

In brief

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies healing touch or usual care in improving quality of life in patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Healing touch may improve the quality of life of patients undergoing stem cell transplant.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02194413

Run by

University of Iowa

People needed

60

Starts

2012-03-01

Expected to finish

2017-01-18

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Currently undergoing autologous (auto) or related allogeneic (related allo) stem cell transplantation
• Admitted to the University (U) Adult Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (UIBMTU) of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic
• Ability to provide written informed consent obtained prior to participation in the study and able to complete questionnaires
• Pregnant woman who are eligible for stem cell transplant are included in this study

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with any significant history of non-compliance to medical regimens, with inability to grant a reliable informed consent or unable to complete questionnaires
• Patients with evidence of a significant psychiatric disorder by history that would prevent completion of the study will not be allowed to participate, i.e., schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
• Diagnosis of dementia or other disease affecting cognitive function
• Nursing women are excluded

Where it is running

• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa, United States

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