Impacts of Touch-massage on the Experience of Patients With Chronic Pain: a Mixed Study.
CompletedNot applicableNCT04295603
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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 main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage on the experience of patients with chronic pain. The study takes place in two rehabilitation internal medicine services of the University Hospitals of Geneva at 2 inpatients units with 78 participants (39 per group).
Study details
- Official title
- Impacts of Touch-massage on the Experience of Patients With Chronic Pain and on the Provider-patient Relationship in Inpatient Settings: a Mixed Method Study.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Toucher Massage (TM) on the feet
- Other: Homedics HM MP RELEX 90 device
- Sponsor
- School of Health Sciences Geneva
- Start date
- 2019-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2021-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitalized for a minimum of two weeks * Suffering from chronic pain for more than 3 months * Having sufficient command of French in reading, writing or speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Documented cognitive impairments, and jeopardizing their ability to discern * Diagnosed with cancer that does interfere with foot massage (extremities metastases) * Dermatological conditions that interfere with foot massage * Suffering from major polyneuropathy * Taking anticoagulants or bleeding disorders * Being pregnant * Having a pacemaker
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04295603