Responses to Energy & Mock Healing in Fatigued Survivors

对能源的反应

• 批准号: 7254849
• 负责人: SHAMINI JAIN
• 金额: $ 3.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7254849
• 关键词: alternative medicine; behavioral /social science research tag; breast neoplasms; cancer rehabilitation /care; circadian rhythms; clinical research; cortisol; fatigue; female; human subject; human therapy evaluation; immune response; inflammation; patient oriented research; predoctoral investigator; psychological aspect of cancer; therapy adverse effect

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal aims to examine the short-term impact of energy healing versus mock healing for fatigued breast cancer survivors, and explore whether certain factors (i.e., holistic worldview and absorption) are associated with positive responses to treatment. Outcome measures include self-reports of fatigue, depression and quality of life as well as inflammatory immune (soluble intercellular adhesion molecule and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) and hormonal (cortisol) markers that are associated with these psychological factors and bear clinical relevance for breast cancer. This is a crossover design in which 50 participants will receive three sessions of energy healing during a one week period, and three sessions of mock energy healing during a separate week period. It is hypothesized that treatment with energy healing will be associated with lower fatigue and improved psychological functioning, as well as decreases in inflammatory markers and increased cortisol variability. A secondary hypothesis is participants whose worldviews match the holistic principles of energy healing will report greater benefits from treatment than those with non-matching worldviews, and that this benefit will be greater for energy healing versus mock healing.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案旨在检查能量愈合与模拟愈合对疲劳乳腺癌幸存者的短期影响，并探讨某些因素（即整体世界观和吸收）是否与对治疗的积极反应有关。结果措施包括疲劳的自我报告，抑郁和生活质量以及炎症性免疫（可溶性细胞间粘附分子和白介素-1受体拮抗剂）以及与这些心理因素和乳腺癌临床相关性相关的激素（Cortisol）标记。这是一种跨界设计，其中有50名参与者将在一周的时间内接受三个会议的能量愈合，并在单独的一周内进行三个模拟能量康复。假设能量愈合的治疗将与较低的疲劳和改善的心理功能以及炎症标志物减少和皮质醇变异性有关。次要假设是参与者的世界观与能量愈合的整体原理相匹配的是，与未匹配世界观的人相比，从治疗中获得的好处更大，而这种益处对于能量康复与模拟康复的益处将更大。