Distance Healing in Wound Healing

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute72 enrolled

Overview

This trial examines the impact of patients' knowledge of an experienced distant healer's efforts to heal them on measures of wound healing, psychosocial functioning, and physiological symptoms after plastic surgery.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

QUADRUPLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breast Reconstruction Surgery

Interventions

Distance healingBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 34 YearsMax age: 64 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Women undergoing major plastic surgery (\> 2 hours in length) * Health status is excellent with no systemic disease, no limitation on activity, no danger of death or disease of one body system, well-controlled underlying disease Exclusion Criteria: * Remove history of breast or other cancers * History of radiation therapy to the abdomen or any radiation within the past three months * Non-English speaking * Unable or unwilling to fill out questionnaires * Current smoker * Morbid obesity * Circulatory inadequacies (i.e., diabetes, hypovolemia) * Nutritional deficits as evidenced by neutropenia (WBC \<2500/ml) or hypoalbuminemia (albumin \<3.3mmg/dl) / chart review

Locations (1)

Complementary Medicine Research Institute

San Francisco, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Collagen deposition in a surrogate wound

Time frame: 8 days

Secondary Outcomes

POMS normalized mood scores

Compared from baseline to end of distant healing period

Time frame: 8 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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