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- Clinical Trial NCT02501447
Feasibility of a Stress Reduction Intervention Study in Sickle Cell Disease
July 15, 2015 updated by: Miriam O. Ezenwa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Stress is known to trigger acute pain crisis of sickle cell disease (SCD).
SCD is an inherited blood disorder that afflicts about 100,000 people in the United States, and is among the most common lethal genetic diseases in the United States.
Though worldwide in distribution, in the US it is most commonly found in African Americans.
Its best known complication is severe, recurrent relentless pain, often known as pain crisis.
Non-drug treatment for SCD pain such as cognitive coping interventions have been shown to be effective for reducing SCD pain intensity, but they are complicated, multifaceted, and time-consuming.
A simple and cost-effective alternative such as guided imagery (GI) could reduce the effect of stress on SCD pain.
GI is an intervention where patients listen to and view audio-visual recordings while being directed to visualize themselves being immersed in that scene or scenario.
There are no published studies on the use of GI as a simple stress coping intervention or tracking stress in a systematic manner as a trigger for SCD pain.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
28
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults 18 years of age or older,
- Diagnosis of SCD,
- Self-reported pain of at least 3 on a 0-10 scale related to SCD,
- Spoke and read English, and
- Self-identified as being of African or Hispanic descent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Legally blind or physically unable to complete procedures.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Guided audio-visual relaxation group
The guided relaxation (GR) intervention included a single 12-min GR video clip we administered to subjects at the baseline visit to determine the immediate effects of GR on stress and pain.
The GR intervention also included six video clips, which ranged from 2 to 20 minutes in length to determine the short-term (2-week) effects of GR on stress and pain.
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No Intervention: Attention Control group
For the attention control group, subjects engaged in a 12-min computer-based discussion about their sickle cell disease (SCD) experience.
The audio-taped questions and onscreen directions were programmed for self-administration.
Subjects' responses were captured via the microphone so that Data Collectors were not involved in this discussion process, and it was equivalent to the guided relation activity.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Current stress
Time Frame: Immediate (baseline)
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Stress intensity scale: A 3-item scale that asks patients to report their current, least, and worst stress intensity today, on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is "no stress" and 10 is "stress as bad as it could be."
We estimated intervention effects using linear regression with bootstrapping.
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Immediate (baseline)
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Current pain
Time Frame: Immediate (baseline)
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PAINReportIt® Pain intensity scale: A 3-item scale that asks patients to report their current, least, and worst pain intensity today, on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is "no pain" and 10 is "pain as bad as it could be."
We estimated intervention effects using linear regression with bootstrapping.
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Immediate (baseline)
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Average stress intensity
Time Frame: Short-term (2 weeks)
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Stress intensity scale: A 3-item scale that asks patients to report their current, least, and worst stress intensity today, on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is "no stress" and 10 is "stress as bad as it could be."
We averaged the three scores to create an average stress intensity score.
We estimated intervention effects using linear regression with bootstrapping.
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Short-term (2 weeks)
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Composite pain index
Time Frame: Short-term (2 weeks)
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PAINReportIt® Composite pain index (CPI): A a multidimensional representation of pain calculated by averaging the individual proportional scores for each of the four pain dimensions: (1) number of pain sites; (2) pain intensity; (3) total pain rating index (from the McGill Pain Questionnaire [MPQ], pain quality); and (4) pain pattern score.
the scores for the CPI range from 0 to 100.
We estimated intervention effects using linear regression with bootstrapping.
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Short-term (2 weeks)
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Miriam O Ezenwa, PhD, RN, University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications and helpful links
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Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Study Start
November 1, 2013
Primary Completion (Actual)
November 1, 2014
Study Completion (Actual)
November 1, 2014
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
July 13, 2015
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
July 15, 2015
First Posted (Estimate)
July 17, 2015
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
July 17, 2015
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
July 15, 2015
Last Verified
July 1, 2015
More Information
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Other Study ID Numbers
- Protocol # 2012-1084
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