This trial examines the impact of patients’ knowledge of an experienced distant healer's efforts to heal them on measures of wound healing, psychosocial functioning, and physiological symptoms after plastic surgery.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Breast Reconstruction Surgery	Behavior: Distance healing  Behavior: Prayer	Phase I Phase II

Ages Eligible for Study:  34 Years   -   64 Years,  Genders Eligible for Study:  Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women undergoing major plastic surgery (> 2 hours in length)
• Health status is excellent with no systemic disease, no limitation on activity, no danger of death or disease of one body system, well-controlled underlying disease

Exclusion Criteria:

• Remove history of breast or other cancers
• History of radiation therapy to the abdomen or any radiation within the past three months
• Non-English speaking
• Unable or unwilling to fill out questionnaires
• Current smoker
• Morbid obesity
• Circulatory inadequacies (i.e., diabetes, hypovolemia)
• Nutritional deficits as evidenced by neutropenia (WBC <2500/ml) or hypoalbuminemia (albumin <3.3mmg/dl) / chart review

Please refer to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov identifier  NCT00067717

 

California
      Complementary Medicine Research Institute, San Francisco,  California,  94115,  United States; Recruiting

Study ID Numbers:  R21AT1437; SchlitzMJ
Last Updated:  December 8, 2005
Record first received:  August 25, 2003
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:  NCT00067717
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2006-02-06