Impacts of Touch-massage on the Experience of Patients With Chronic Pain and on the Provider-patient Relationship in Inpatient Settings: a Mixed Method Study.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 82
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Global impression of change
研究概览
简要总结
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage on the experience of patients with chronic pain. The study takes place in two rehabilitation internal medicine services of the University Hospitals of Geneva at 2 inpatients units with 78 participants (39 per group).
详细描述
This is a monocentric study with a design of non-randomized cluster trial with an exploratory qualitative part. The treatment is assigned to one of two care units and subjects are allocated to the care unit not according to a randomization process but based on administrative basis.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage (TM) on the experience of patients with chronic pain hospitalized in two rehabilitation internal medicine services.
The main objective is to measure the effects of TM on the global impression of change of the perception of pain.
The secondary objectives are:
- Measure the effects on
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Hospitalized for a minimum of two weeks
- •Suffering from chronic pain for more than 3 months
- •Having sufficient command of French in reading, writing or speaking
排除标准
- •Documented cognitive impairments, and jeopardizing their ability to discern
- •Diagnosed with cancer that does interfere with foot massage (extremities metastases)
- •Dermatological conditions that interfere with foot massage
- •Suffering from major polyneuropathy
- •Taking anticoagulants or bleeding disorders
- •Being pregnant
- •Having a pacemaker
结局指标
主要结局
Global impression of change
时间窗: Baseline, two weeks
Global impression of change will be measured by The Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC). Minimum value = 1 (no change or condition has got worse) Maximum value = 7 (a great deal better, and a considerable improvement that has made all the difference)
次要结局
- Severity of pain(Baseline, two weeks)
- The patient's perception of their interaction with the caregiver(Baseline, two weeks)
- Anxiety, depression(Baseline, two weeks)
研究者
Gora Da Rocha
Professor assistant
School of Health Sciences Geneva