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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) |
Information provided by: | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00065208 |
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Reiki energy healing affects anxiety and disease progression in patients with localized prostate cancer who are candidates for radical prostatectomy.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Prostate Cancer |
Behavioral: Reiki |
Phase I Phase II |
MedlinePlus related topics: | Anxiety Cancer Prostate Cancer |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Effects of Energy Healing on Prostate Cancer |
Estimated Enrollment: | 120 |
Study Start Date: | April 2005 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | August 2008 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Reiki: Experimental
Energy therapy
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Behavioral: Reiki
Energy therapy
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120 newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients will be randomized to one of 3 groups: Reiki, another touch therapy, or guided imagery. Subjects in the Reiki and touch therapy groups have 8 sessions in the 4 weeks prior to their medical intervention. Those in the imagery group have one session prior to their medical intervention.
Genders Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria:
Contact: Joan E Fox, Ph.D. | 216-445-3874 | foxj@ccf.org |
Contact: Didier Allexandre, Ph.D. | 216-444-0767 | allexad@ccf.org |
United States, Ohio | |||||
Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Recruiting | ||||
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195 | |||||
Contact: Jeanette Potts, MD 216-445-7801 pottsj@ccf.org | |||||
Contact: Eric Klein, MD 216-444-5591 kleine@ccf.org | |||||
Principal Investigator: Joan Fox, Ph.D. |
Principal Investigator: | Joan Fox, Ph.D. | Cleveland Clinic |
Responsible Party: | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine ( Joan E. B. Fox, PhD ) |
Study ID Numbers: | R21 AT001120 |
First Received: | July 18, 2003 |
Last Updated: | August 14, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00065208 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
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