Status:
WITHDRAWN
Reiki as a Complementary Therapy: A Pilot Study
Lead Sponsor:
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Conditions:
Hematologic Malignancy
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This research is being done to test whether a complementary intervention, Reiki therapy, can provide added benefits to the standard patient care. Reiki is method for stress reduction that uses hand po...
Detailed Description
This pilot study is designed to test if a complementary therapy, Reiki, has an effect on physiological and subjective measures of stress. This is a 2-arm randomized pilot study of the use of Reiki the...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients 18 and older admitted to hospital
- Speak English
- Able to give consent will be included.
Exclusion
- Patients who are under 18
- Non-English speaking
- Unable to consent
- Pregnant women
- Unwilling to join the study will be excluded
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients and those patients scheduled to receive conscious sedation will be excluded.
- Each patient may join the pilot study only once
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2014
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02207764
Start Date
September 1 2014
Last Update
December 23 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287