Spirituality, Religiosity, and Immune Functioning | NCT00066924

Studies
Spirituality, Religiosity, and Immune Functioning

NCT00066924

Sponsor

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Jun 24, 2005Estimated

Enrollment

120

Phase

Not provided

Conditions

Cancer
Depression
Dying Process

Interventions

Not provided

Countries

United States

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Annotation Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Document Section

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

May 2005

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Sep 2003

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Jun 2004

First Submitted Date

Aug 7, 2003

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Aug 7, 2003

First Posted Date

Aug 8, 2003Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

Not provided

Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

Not provided

Certification/Extension First Posted Date

Not provided

Last Update Submitted Date

Jun 23, 2005

Last Update Posted Date

Jun 24, 2005Estimated

Description Module

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether religiosity and spirituality are related to immune functioning, as measured by interleukin-6 blood plasma level, among terminally ill cancer patients.

Detailed Description

Not provided

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Not provided

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Not provided

Intervention Model

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

120

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

Inpatient at Calvary Hospital
Diagnosis of terminal cancer
Score of 20 or above on Mini-Mental State Exam

Exclusion criteria:

Presence of a psychiatric disorder that would preclude the production of meaningful data

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

21 Years

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Barry Rosenfeld, PhD	Fordham University	Principal Investigator
William Breitbart, MD	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Calvary Hospital		The Bronx	New York		United States

References Module

Citations

PubMed Identifier	Type	Citation	Retractions
12747880	Background	McClain CS, Rosenfeld B, Breitbart W. Effect of spiritual well-being on end-of-life despair in terminally-ill cancer patients. Lancet. 2003 May 10;361(9369):1603-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13310-7.

ID	Term
D009369	Neoplasms
D003863	Depression
D003643	Death

ID	Term
D001526	Behavioral Symptoms
D001519	Behavior
D010335	Pathologic Processes
D013568	Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms