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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers Results available

The Effect of Healing Touch on Sleep

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01870076

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Official title

Effectiveness of Healing Touch on Sleep, Pain, Anxiety, Anesthesia Emergence, Satisfaction and Cost of Care in Surgical

Brief summary

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Healing Touch improves measures of sleep the night prior to surgery, thus improving surgery-related morbidity.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT01870076
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Not applicable
Lead sponsor: Shriners Hospitals for Children; Other
Enrollment: 41 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Elective Reconstructive Surgery Population

Interventions

Healing Touch Behavioral
Healing Touch, Sham Behavioral
Control, Presence Behavioral

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 5 Years to 25 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date: Dec 12, 2015 (Actual)
Primary completion: May 15, 2017 (Actual)
Completion: Jul 3, 2017 (Actual)
Last update posted: Nov 20, 2017

2015 – 2017

United States locations

U.S. sites: 1
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 1

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
Shriners Hospitals for Children	Cincinnati	Ohio	45231	—

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