Clinical trial · Interventional
Healing Touch or Guided Imagery In Treating Pain, Fatigue, Nausea, and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy
The Efficacy of Healing Touch Versus Guided Imagery on Pain, Fatigue, Nausea, and Anxiety in Patients' Receiving Outpatient Chemotherapy
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This randomized clinical trial studies healing touch or guided imagery in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Healing touch and guided imagery may help treat complications caused by chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether healing touch or guided imagery is more effective in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy
Conditions
Conditions (5)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anxiety Disorder | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Fatigue | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Malignant Neoplasm | Malignant Neoplasm | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.90 |
| Nausea and Vomiting | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (4)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| management of therapy complications | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| questionnaire administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| standard follow-up care | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| therapeutic touch | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (3)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Arm A (healing touch therapy)
- description
- Patients receive 30 minutes of healing touch therapy consisting of magnetic clearing, pain drains, hands in motion/hands still and mind clearing.
- interventionNames
- Other: questionnaire administration
- Procedure: therapeutic touch
- Behavioral: management of therapy complications
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Arm B (guided imagery)
- description
- Patients listen to guided imagery audiotapes for 30 minutes.
- interventionNames
- Other: questionnaire administration
- Behavioral: management of therapy complications
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients at the outpatient chemotherapy area will be enrolled without consideration for type of cancer or chemotherapeutic agents to be used
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