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Abstract
Grant Number: 1F31AT003021-01 Project Title: Responses to Energy & Mock Healing in Fatigued Survivors
PI Information: Name Title JAIN, SHAMINI sjain@ucsd.edu Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal aims to examine the short-term impact of energy healing versus mock healing for fatigued breast cancer survivors, and explore whether certain factors (i.e., holistic worldview and absorption) are associated with positive responses to treatment. Outcome measures include self-reports of fatigue, depression and quality of life as well as inflammatory immune (soluble intercellular adhesion molecule and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) and hormonal (cortisol) markers that are associated with these psychological factors and bear clinical relevance for breast cancer. This is a crossover design in which 50 participants will receive three sessions of energy healing during a one week period, and three sessions of mock energy healing during a separate week period. It is hypothesized that treatment with energy healing will be associated with lower fatigue and improved psychological functioning, as well as decreases in inflammatory markers and increased cortisol variability. A secondary hypothesis is participants whose worldviews match the holistic principles of energy healing will report greater benefits from treatment than those with non-matching worldviews, and that this benefit will be greater for energy healing versus mock healing.
Public Health Relevance:
This Public Health Relevance is not available.Thesaurus Terms:
alternative medicine, breast neoplasm, fatigue, psychological aspect of cancer
cancer rehabilitation /care, circadian rhythm, cortisol, human therapy evaluation, immune response, inflammation, therapy adverse effect
behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, female, human subject, patient oriented research, predoctoral investigator
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO 9500 GILMAN DR, DEPT 0934 LA JOLLA, CA 920930934 Fiscal Year: 2005 Department: PSYCHIATRY Project Start: 01-SEP-2005 Project End: 31-AUG-2007 ICD: NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IRG: ZAT1