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NCT Number: NCT00067717

Distance Healing in Wound Healing

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Breast Reconstruction Surgery

Age range

34 year–64 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

Complementary Medicine Research Institute

San Francisco, California, 94115, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 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

Exclusion criteria

  • 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

Treatment and study plan

Distance healing

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

  1. Collagen deposition in a surrogate wound

    Time frame: 8 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. POMS normalized mood scores

    Time frame: 8 days

    Compared from baseline to end of distant healing period

Other outcomes

  1. SF-36 Mental Composite Score

    Time frame: 8 days

  2. SF-36 Physical Composite Score

    Time frame: 8 days

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

Other

Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Registry information

Official study title

Placebo Effects in Distance Healing of Wounds

Important dates

Study start
2003
Primary completion
2008
Study completion
2008
First posted
Aug 27, 2003
Registry last updated
Oct 20, 2014

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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