Effectiveness of Relational Touch in Painful Elderly
CompletedNot applicableNCT01837732
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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 aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of a relational touch / relational intervention on persistent pain in a long term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the pain reduction. The hypothesis is that this type of intervention is very useful on pain reduction in old people even with physical or mental disability.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of Relational Touch in the Management of Chronic Pain in Institutionalized Elderly
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Relational Touch
- Other: Relational:
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
- Start date
- 2013-03
- Primary completion
- 2015-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>65 y * Chronic pain \> 3 months * Follow up 4 weeks * Patient's speak french * Patient's or representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data Exclusion Criteria: * acute pain * unstable clinical status
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01837732