Study of Fine Art Photographs and Visualization Tapes to Improve Surgical Recovery in Breast Cancer
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Official title
Using Visual Milieu Enrichment and Guided Visualization to Augment Patient Well-being and Post-surgical Recovery
Brief summary
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This is a study to assess whether healing suggestions and enhancing visual milieu (large fine art photographs) will improve mental and physical measures of well-being and recovery from surgery. The study will compare breast cancer patients undergoing identical skin sparing mastectomy and reconstruction surgery randomized to three groups: 1. Usual care control group 2. Usual care and exposure to fine art photograph 3. Usual care and fine art photograph and guided visualization tapes.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00179634
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 24 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Visualization relaxation Behavioral
- Visual Milieu Enhancement (Fine art photograph) Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 28, 2005
- Primary completion
- Mar 26, 2008
- Completion
- Mar 26, 2008
- Last update posted
- Mar 23, 2017
2005 – 2008
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02215 | — |
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