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NCT03173872
The Acceptance of Reiki Therapy as a Complementary and Alternative Option for the Management of Chronic Pain
NA trial testing Reiki Protocol Hand Placement Procedures in Pain, Chronic in 30 participants. Completed in 31 May 2017.
31 May 2017
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Landstuhl Regional Medical Center |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 30 |
| Start date | 6 April 2017 |
| Primary completion | 31 May 2017 |
| Estimated completion | 31 May 2017 |
| Sites | 1 location across Germany |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Reiki Protocol Hand Placement Procedures
Conditions studied
- Pain, Chronic — all drugs for Pain, Chronic →
Sponsor
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Pain, Chronic. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
For the past few years, the military has been looking for an innovative way to decrease the use of opioids for chronic pain. This has prompted military treatment facilities to begin integrating complementary and/or alternative medicine modalities into their conventional plans of care. Reiki, a bio-field energy therapy, is one such modality. The purpose of this prospective repeated measure study is to: 1) introduce the concept Reiki therapy to military healthcare beneficiaries experiencing chronic pain, 2) assess pain outcome after receiving six treatments of Reiki therapy, and 3) assess participant's impression of Reiki therapy as a possible complementary and/or alternative option for the management of chronic pain. Thirty military healthcare beneficiaries with the complaint of chronic pain will receive a brief introduction to Reiki therapy followed by six 30-minute Reiki sessions provided by trained Reiki Level 1 Practitioner. Participant's knowledge of Reiki will be assessed using pre and post questionnaires; pain will be assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory, Defense Veterans Pain Rating Scale, DoD (Department of Defense) VA (Veteran's Administration) Pain Supplementary Questionnaire, McGill Pain Questionnaire and pain medication diaries; and participant's impression will be assessed using the Patient Global Impression of Improvement Scale and along with a post study questionnaire. If it is found that Reiki therapy helped in decreasing chronic pain outcomes, this treatment modality may be added to Landstuhl Regional Medical (LRMC) Pain Clinic's pool of complementary and alternative medicine options.
Publications & conference data
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03173872 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
- Last refreshed: 12 September 2017
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