FatigueNCT00321880
Healing Touch in Treating Patients Receiving Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
A study testing therapeutic touch in people with Fatigue and Leukemia, run by Wake Forest University Health Sciences at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
RATIONALE: Supportive care, such as healing touch, may improve quality of life in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute leukemia. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well healing touch works in treating patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 120 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Fatigue, Leukemia, Psychosocial Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment
- What is being tested?
- therapeutic touch
- Type of treatment
- Surgery or procedure
- How many people
- 40 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Feb 2006to Oct 2008
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 120 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Diagnosis of one of the following acute leukemias:
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Hospitalized for induction (newly diagnosed patients) or reinduction (relapsed patients) chemotherapy
- Must be oncology inpatients at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Must know adequate English to understand the consent form, complete questionnaires, and converse with study staff
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157-1096
About this study
Official title: Healing Touch as a Supportive Intervention for Adult Acute Leukemia Patients: A Pilot Study
RATIONALE: Supportive care, such as healing touch, may improve quality of life in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute leukemia.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well healing touch works in treating patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Read the detailed description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial, in terms of recruiting and retaining participants, to a study of healing touch (HT) as supportive care in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Examine potential barriers to participation and ascertain reasons for study drop-outs in these patients.
- Demonstrate whether these patients will comply with treatment sessions and remain in the study.
- Obtain preliminary data on the effectiveness of HT on psychological distress and treatment-related symptoms focusing on fatigue and sleep disturbances in these patients.
- Determine if the HT protocol needs to be refined, modified, or eliminated, based on pilot participant feedback, for a randomized clinical trial.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot study.
Within 1 week of admission to the hospital, patients are interviewed by a research assistant about previous use of complementary or alternative medicine therapies, knowledge of healing touch (HT), previous experience with HT, willingness to participate in a study of HT for acute leukemia patients, and willingness to be randomized in a HT study. The first 12 patients interested in undergoing HT undergo a 30-minute session of HT therapy 3 times a week during weeks 2, 3, and 4 of induction or reinduction chemotherapy. Patients are also asked to rate current distress, pain, fatigue, and nausea before and after the second HT session during weeks 2, 3, and 4. Patients also complete self-report questionnaires at baseline, during week 5 of induction or reinduction chemotherapy or prior to discharge from the hospital, and during the first week of consolidation chemotherapy (approximately week 9-13).
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.
- Being tested
- therapeutic touch
- Keywords
- fatigue, psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities, adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22), recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia, untreated adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia
- Medical subject headings
- Fatigue, Leukemia, Congenital Abnormalities, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
therapeutic touchProcedure or surgery
administration of healing touch in 30 minute sessions
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients for a randomized controlled trial to study healing touch (HT) as supportive care
Measured: 4 weeks
Effectiveness of healing touch on reducing psychological stress and fatigue
Measured: 4 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted4 May 2006 (estimated)
- Study startFeb 2006
- Primary completionFeb 2007
- Study completionOct 2008
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for FatigueStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Wake Forest University Health SciencesThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Suzanne C. Danhauer, PhD, Principal investigator, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00321880
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CDR0000471996
- Other IDs
- CCCWFU-02305, CCCWFU-BG06-006
- Status last verified
- Jul 2012
- First submitted
- 2 May 2006
- Last updated
- 30 May 2017
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 30 May 2017. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Healing Touch as a Supportive Intervention for Adult Acute Leukemia Patients: A Pilot Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00321880
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CDR0000471996
- Keywords
- fatigue, psychosocial effects of cancer and its treatment, adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities, adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22), recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health SciencesUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Study start
- Feb 2006
- Primary completion
- Feb 2007 (actual)
- Study completion
- Oct 2008 (actual)
- First posted
- 4 May 2006 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
RATIONALE: Supportive care, such as healing touch, may improve quality of life in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute leukemia.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well healing touch works in treating patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Detailed description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial, in terms of recruiting and retaining participants, to a study of healing touch (HT) as supportive care in patients receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Examine potential barriers to participation and ascertain reasons for study drop-outs in these patients.
- Demonstrate whether these patients will comply with treatment sessions and remain in the study.
- Obtain preliminary data on the effectiveness of HT on psychological distress and treatment-related symptoms focusing on fatigue and sleep disturbances in these patients.
- Determine if the HT protocol needs to be refined, modified, or eliminated, based on pilot participant feedback, for a randomized clinical trial.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot study.
Within 1 week of admission to the hospital, patients are interviewed by a research assistant about previous use of complementary or alternative medicine therapies, knowledge of healing touch (HT), previous experience with HT, willingness to participate in a study of HT for acute leukemia patients, and willingness to be randomized in a HT study. The first 12 patients interested in undergoing HT undergo a 30-minute session of HT therapy 3 times a week during weeks 2, 3, and 4 of induction or reinduction chemotherapy. Patients are also asked to rate current distress, pain, fatigue, and nausea before and after the second HT session during weeks 2, 3, and 4. Patients also complete self-report questionnaires at baseline, during week 5 of induction or reinduction chemotherapy or prior to discharge from the hospital, and during the first week of consolidation chemotherapy (approximately week 9-13).
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 120 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| therapeutic touchadministration of healing touch in 30 minute sessions | Procedure or surgery | – |
Primary outcome
Feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients for a randomized controlled trial to study healing touch (HT) as supportive care
Time frame: 4 weeks
Effectiveness of healing touch on reducing psychological stress and fatigue
Time frame: 4 weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 30 May 2017.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Suzanne C. Danhauer, PhD principal investigator
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing therapeutic touch in people with Fatigue and Leukemia, run by Wake Forest University Health Sciences at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 30 May 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Feasibility of recruiting and retaining patients for a randomized controlled trial to study healing touch (HT) as supportive care (time frame: 4 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 30 May 2017.