Home Based Massage and Relaxation for Sickle Cell Pain
CompletedPhase 2NCT00066079
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of in-home, family-administered massage and in-home relaxation training on measures of physical status and health care utilization in a sample of African American adolescents age 15 years and older and adults with chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease who have been randomly assigned to six sessions of either family-administered massage or progressive muscle relaxation training.
Study details
- Official title
- Home Based Massage and Relaxation for Sickle Cell Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Start date
- 2003-08
- Primary completion
- 2006-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 15 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion criteria: * Medically diagnosed with sickle cell disease, including hemoglobin SS disease, hemoglobin SD disease, hemoglobin SC disease, or sickle-thalassemia * Self-report of having experienced chronic pain related to sickle cell disease during the past 30 days. * Availability of a family member or friend who agrees to be trained to administer massages if the participant is randomized to the massage arm of the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Sickle cell trait instead of sickle cell disease diagnosis. * Diagnosis of disease in addition to sickle cell disease which requires regular use of pain medication. (Please note, regular use of pain medication for sickle cell pain is NOT an exclusion)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00066079