This randomized clinical trial studies healing touch or guided imagery in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Healing touch and guided imagery may help treat complications caused by chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether healing touch or guided imagery is more effective in treating pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety in patients undergoing chemotherapy
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine if the provision of healing touch or guided imagery during outpatient chemotherapy is associated with decreased pain, fatigue, nausea and anxiety when compared to standard outpatient treatment protocols. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms. ARM A: Patients receive 30 minutes of healing touch therapy comprising magnetic clearing, pain drains, hands in motion/hands still and mind clearing. ARM B: Patients listen to guided imagery audiotapes for 30 minutes ARM C: Patients receive standard of care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
244
Ancillary studies
Receive healing touch therapy
Receive healing touch therapy
Receive guided imagery audiotapes
Receive standard care
Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Change scores for each patient on pain scale
Collected using a 10 point visual analog scale for pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety. Analyzed initially using descriptive statistics. Compared among the 3 groups using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) models and 2-sample t-tests.
Time frame: Approximately 6 months
Change scores for each patient on fatigue scale
Collected using a 10 point visual analog scale for pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety. Analyzed initially using descriptive statistics. Compared among the 3 groups using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) models and 2-sample t-tests.
Time frame: Approximately 6 months
Change scores for each patient on nausea scale
Collected using a 10 point visual analog scale for pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety. Analyzed initially using descriptive statistics. Compared among the 3 groups using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) models and 2-sample t-tests.
Time frame: Approximately 6 months
Change scores for each patient on anxiety scale
Collected using a 10 point visual analog scale for pain, fatigue, nausea, and anxiety. Analyzed initially using descriptive statistics. Compared among the 3 groups using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) models and 2-sample t-tests.
Time frame: Approximately 6 months
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