Distant Healing for HIV/AIDS | NCT00079534

Studies
Distant Healing for HIV/AIDS

NCT00079534

Sponsor

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Aug 18, 2006Estimated

Enrollment

150

Phase

Not Applicable

Conditions

HIV Infections
AIDS

Interventions

Non-local/distant healing or prayer

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

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Annotation Section

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Document Section

No data available

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Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Aug 2006

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

Dec 2000

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Dec 2003

First Submitted Date

Mar 9, 2004

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Mar 9, 2004

First Posted Date

Mar 10, 2004Estimated

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

Aug 16, 2006

Last Update Posted Date

Aug 18, 2006Estimated

Description Module

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether individuals praying at a distance (also known as "Distant Healing") can positively affect the health of people with HIV/AIDS.

Detailed Description

Significant numbers of people with HIV/AIDS seek spiritual or "psychic" treatment. Distant healing could potentially be of benefit to large numbers of HIV/AIDS patients, as it is widely available and requires no travel or other activity on the part of the patient. However, the treatment can be costly and has not yet been proven effective in a controlled clinical trial. This study will evaluate the efficacy of distant healing in patients with HIV/AIDS.

Participants in this study will be randomly assigned to either the distant healing group or a control group. All participants will have hour-long study visits at entry and Months 6 and 12. At study visits, participants will complete a demographic questionnaire, self-report health and symptom inventory, quality of life assessment, and profile of mood states. Blood will be drawn at each study visit.

Design Module

Study Type

Interventional

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 Applicable

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

150

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Non-local/distant healing or prayer	Behavioral

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion criteria

HIV infection
History of a CD4 cell count less than 200 cells/mm3
Stable antiretroviral regimen
English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

Inability or unwillingness to fill out questionnaires
History of non-HIV related life-threatening disease

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

18 Years

Maximum Age

65 Years

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Donald Abrams, MD	University of California, San Francisco	Principal Investigator
Jerome J. Stone, MA, RN	California Pacific Medical Center	Study Director

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
California Pacific Medical Center		San Francisco	California	94115	United States

Condition Browse Module

MeSH Terms

ID	Term
D015658	HIV Infections
D000163	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Ancestor Terms

ID	Term
D000086982	Blood-Borne Infections
D003141	Communicable Diseases
D007239	Infections
D015229	Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral

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