- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03173872
The Acceptance of Reiki Therapy as a Complementary and Alternative Option for the Management of Chronic Pain
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.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Landstuhl, Germany, 09018
- Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Has chronic pain (defined as pain that lasts 3 months or more since first onset).
- Is receiving a stable pain medication regimen (defined as a regimen that has not increased 10% to 20% in the past week prior to enrollment), if on pain medication.
- Is affiliated with at least one of the 13 installations within the Kaiserslautern Military Community area
- Is eligible to receive healthcare at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
- Is 18 years and older
- Can read and speak English
- Is able to commit to 6 treatments (approximately 2-3 weeks)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have had surgery or a painful procedure in the last 30 days or are being scheduled for any surgeries or painful procedures during the duration of the study
- Already have a working knowledge (e.g., credentialed Reiki Level I, II or III Practitioner or Reiki Master) of Reiki or have had Reiki therapy in the past
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: NA
- Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: One Group Study Arm
One group study arm assesses pre Reiki and post Reiki intervention measures
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Ten Reiki hand placement procedures will last 3 minutes each for a total Reiki session lasting 30 minutes long.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pain Description, Relief and Interference with Daily Life (via Brief Pain Inventory)
Time Frame: From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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This instrument assesses the time relation sensory component of pain intensity (average over the last week, worst and least, and present pain) using a numeric rating scale (0 [No pain] to 10 [Pain as bad as you can imagine]), percentage of pain relief (0 [No relief] to 100% [Complete relief]), and 7 pain interferences concerning work, activity, mood, enjoyment, sleep, walk and relationships are assessed using 0-10 numeric scales (0 [No interference] to 10 [Complete interference]).
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From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Sensory and Affective Pain Perception (via McGill Pain Questionnaire)
Time Frame: From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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This instrument is a brief screening tool for pain and has 3 subscales: Sensory (11 word items), Affective (4 word items), and a composite Evaluative score.
Fifteen words represent acute, intermittent and chronic pains, and are scored on a four-point Likert-type scale from 0 = none to 3 = severe.
A total score of 45 is possible by summing the Sensory and Affective subscales and scoring them separately.
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From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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Current Pain Level (Defense and Veteran Pain Rating Scale)
Time Frame: From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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A Likert Scale graphic tool to describe one's "current" level of pain.
The score ranges from 0 "no pain" to 10 "as bad as it could be nothing else matter".
The scale is also colored coated depicting Mild 1-3 (Green), Moderate 4-7 (Yellow) and Severe 8-10 (Red).
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From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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Impression of current pain's affect on sleep, mood and stress (via DoD/VA Pain Supplemental Questionnaire)
Time Frame: From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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This 4-item Likert Scale instrument is used in conjunction with the Defense and Veteran Pain Rating Scale to measure the biopsychosocial impact of "current" pain level on four areas… activity sleep mood and stress.
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From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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Impression of Improvement (via Patient Global Impression of Improvement Scale Questionnaire) Patient Global Impression of Improvement Scale
Time Frame: At mid-point measure and again at 3 weeks
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This instrument consists of a 7-point Likert scale with 1 = "very much improved" to 7 = "very much worse" to capture overall changes related to a study medication or intervention.
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At mid-point measure and again at 3 weeks
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Knowledge About Reiki (via Reiki Knowledge Assessment Questionnaire)
Time Frame: From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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This 5-item questionnaire to measure the participant's knowledge about Reiki.
The instrument asks five of the most commonly missed questions regarding Reiki…the definition, history, credentials of practitioner, origin and usage.
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From baseline measure to up to 3 weeks
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Willingness to inform other about Reiki and to continue treatments (via Reiki Post Study Questionnaire)
Time Frame: At the conclusion of 3 weeks
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This 5-item questionnaire assesses the participant's impression of Reiki, their willingness to tell a family member, friend or co-worker about the therapy; and their thought of Reiki being offered a permanent treatment option at their healthcare facility.
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At the conclusion of 3 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: MeLisa A Gantt, PhD, Gantt Clinical Research Institute LLC
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- M-10617
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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