Clinical trial · Interventional
Effects of Healing Touch on Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
NCT02194413CI-TRIAL-00025739completedN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- 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 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.
Conditions
Conditions (4)
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 | — |
| Hematopoietic/Lymphoid Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| quality-of-life assessment | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| questionnaire administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| therapeutic touch | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Arm 1 (healing touch)
- description
- Patients receive daily HT sessions comprising pain drain, chakra connection, magnetic clearing, and mind clearing over 30 minutes from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital (therapeutic touch). Interventions: therapeutic touch, quality-of-life assessment, and questionnaire administration
- interventionNames
- Procedure: therapeutic touch
- Other: quality-of-life assessment
- Other: questionnaire administration
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Arm II (usual care)
- description
- Patients receive routine nursing care from doctors and nurses from day 1 until 2 days before discharge from the hospital. Interventions: quality-of-life assessment, and questionnaire administration
- interventionNames
- Other: quality-of-life assessment
- Other: questionnaire administration
Primary outcomes (2)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Exclusion Criteria: * 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
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