N/A
Completed N=20
Teaching Parents Reiki for Their Adolescents Receiving Palliative Care
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03896165 ↗Enrolled (actual)
20
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Mar 2023
Primary outcomePrimary: Satisfaction of Parents Learning Reiki in the Home to Use With Their Adolescent Receiving Palliative Care. — 18 Participants
Summary
The proposed study addresses National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) priorities of advancing symptom science to "develop [and] test … novel, scalable symptom management interventions, including complementary health approaches (CHAs), in real-world clinical settings to improve health outcomes and quality of life" and the science of compassion to improve palliative and end-of-life care through "developing, testing, and implementing personalized, culturally congruent, and evidence-based palliative and hospice interventions that best address the needs of underserved, disadvantaged, and diverse populations across the care continuum." A long-term bonus of teaching parents to deliver Reiki is that Reiki is highly scalable and once learned, costs nothing to use, an important potential overall cost savings over other CHAs.
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Satisfaction of Parents Learning Reiki in the Home to Use With Their Adolescent Receiving Palliative Care. |
18 | — |
| SECONDARY Rate of Change in Adolescents' and Parents' Stress Response (as Measured by Hair Sample). |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Rate of Change in Adolescents' and Parents' Stress Response (as Measured by Saliva Alpha Amylase). |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Adolescents' and Parents' Symptom Profile as Measured by Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Symptom Questionnaire. |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Explore the Parents Confidence in Delivering Reiki Through Audio-recorded Interviews |
— | — |
| SECONDARY Explore Parents' Confidence Their Ability to Help Their Adolescent Through Audio-recorded Interviews |
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Participants will include adolescent-parent dyads. Dyads will be included if the
- Adolescent: (1) is 10 to 19 years old, (2) is receiving palliative care at home, (3) understands English
- Parent: (1) provides care for the adolescent most days of the week and (2) is able to read and write English at the 6th grade level.
Exclusion Criteria
- if (1) either the adolescent or the parent are taking or have taken corticosteroids within the last 30 days (affects the hair cortisol levels), or (2) either the adolescent or the parent has less than one inch of hair.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03896165). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.