Clinical trials: Therapeutic Touch
Pleasant Touch, Cortical Response
GentleTouch (Study to Evaluate Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) Responses to Affective Touch and How it Develops in Healthy Term Babies)
This study will attempt to measure the direct effect of pleasant skin touch on the developing infant brain. The massage intervention stimulates a specific class of unmyelinated C-fibres in the skin called C-touch (CT) afferents…
- Trial name
- NCT03731195
- Where
- 2 sites in Ireland, United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College Cork
Infant, Newborn, Disease, Pain, Acute
Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of white noise and therapeutic touch on pain in newborn heel blood collection.Questions including the sex of the newborns, postnatal age, gestational age, birth weight, height, head…
- Trial name
- NCT05510271
- Testing
- White Noise, Yakson Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 65 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ataturk University
Healthy
Oxytocin Effects on Self Versus Other Touch
The main aim of the study is to investigate the modulatory effects of oxytocin (24IU) administered orally using medicated lollipops on the behavioral and neural responses to touching yourself compared with being touched by others.
- Trial name
- NCT05899517
- Testing
- oral lollipop with oxytocin (24IU)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Stress, Anxiety
The Effect of Therapeutic Touch and Reiki Application on Anxiety and Stress Levels in Female Academicians
Stress and anxiety form an integral part of organizational life in universities. Studies reveal that the stress experienced by academicians has increased dramatically in recent years. Stress affects employee performance.
- Trial name
- NCT05799560
- Testing
- THERAPEUTIC TOUCH, REİKİ
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Infant Development, Pain, Procedural
Parental Touch Trial (Petal)
This is a two centre two-arm randomised controlled interventional trial. We aim to determine whether parental touch prior to a painful clinical procedure provides effective analgesia in neonates.
- Conditions
- Infant Development, Pain, Procedural, Parents
- Trial name
- Petal (NCT04901611)
- Testing
- Parental touch
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Paediatric Neuroimaging Research Group
Pain
Bupivacaine Digital Blocks: How Long is the Pain Relief and Temperature Elevation?
No one knows how long bupivacaine finger blocks last. Many use bupivacaine with and without epinephrine, but no one knows how the epinephrine affects the duration of the block.
- Trial name
- NCT01698593
- Testing
- Bupivacaine 0.5%, Bupivacaine 0.5% + Epinephrine (1:200,000)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lalonde, Donald H., M.D.
Depression
The Effect of Foot Reflexology and Therapeutic Touch on Fatigue, Depression and Quality of Sexual Life in Women
This study aims to examine the effects of foot reflexology and therapeutic touch on fatigue, depression and sexual quality of life in women receiving hemodialysis treatment.
- Trial name
- NCT06411652
- Testing
- Reflexology, Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
Ultrasound Evaluation of Hamstring Tendon Regeneration After ACL Reconstruction and Its Influence
High incidence rate of knee osteoarthritis and gait analysis are important for early assessment of biomechanics. ACL injury is an ideal clinical model for studying knee osteoarthritis.
- Trial name
- NCT04961736
- Testing
- no intervention
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Peking University Third Hospital
Healthy Children, Preterm Birth
Executive Training and Brain in Children
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a daily executive training to cognitive inhibition, working memory or mindfulness as compared to an active control condition has a near- and far-transfer impact on brain and…
- Trial name
- APEX (NCT02989116)
- Testing
- Inhibition training, Working memory training, Mindfulness training
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen
Post Partum Depression, Quality of Life
Impact of Mothers Touch Program to Improve Maternal Health After Birth
After the child birth most women experience major health issues such as depression, severe fatigue, back pain, perineal pain, mastitis, urinary or faecal incontinence, sexual problems and relationship problems with partners.
- Trial name
- NCT03715218
- Testing
- Mothers Touch Program, Usual Care Program
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NMP Medical Research Institute
Angina Pectoris
Evaluation of Graft Material in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
The aim of the study is to evaluate the patency in different kinds of vessels used as graft material in coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Trial name
- NCT01310725
- Testing
- Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Region Örebro County
Obesity
The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity
The aim of the present research is to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with obesity and healthy women, while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of…
- Trial name
- AffTouch_OB (NCT05768685)
- Testing
- Affective touch paradigm
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Aging
The Impact of Multi-Touch Functional Digital Game on Intelligence and Vitality for the Community-dwelling Elderly
This single-blinded, randomized, controlled trial includes 32 elderly. The participants were randomized to intervention(Happy Table) and control(cognitive stimulation activity) groups. Each group is divided in 16 participants.
- Trial name
- NCT04873843
- Testing
- Functional digital game training group, Individual cognitive training
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Samsung Medical Center
Mental State, Reported as Depression, Anxiety or Stress
The Impact of Giving a Massage
The aim of this study is to investigate if giving a massage impacts the mental state of a massage therapist, including depression, anxiety, and stress .
- Trial name
- NCT01169480
- Testing
- Give a massage
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Parker Research Institute
Primary Insomnia
Enhancing Sleep Onset: the Power of Tactile Breath Pacer in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of technology-assisted breathing exercises combined with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) in primary insomnia patients to investigate.
- Trial name
- MOONBIRD (NCT06475378)
- Testing
- Moonbird, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Amputation
Enhanced Tactile (Touch) Spatial Acuity in Upper Limb Amputees
This study will examine whether tactile (touch) abilities at the lip are more acute in people with upper limb amputation compared with healthy normal volunteers.
- Trial name
- NCT00028210
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Premature Birth, Infant Development
Neonatal Experience of Social Touch
The purpose of this randomised control trial is to determine the efficacy of CT-optimal touch (gentle stroking at 3cm/s) for newborn's who require a heel prick.
- Conditions
- Premature Birth, Infant Development, Pain
- Trial name
- NEST (NCT05039918)
- Testing
- Affective touch
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Liverpool John Moores University
Healthy
Auditory, Visual, and Tactile Interactions During Active, Dynamic Touch
Even though extensive research on the multisensory integration of auditory and visual stimuli has been carried out, the mechanisms of integration of tactile stimuli with other senses remain less known and understood.
- Trial name
- INTOUCH (NCT05943392)
- Testing
- EEG recording, Psychophysics (behavioural experiments)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Université Catholique de Louvain
Central Nervous System
Touch and Attention MRI Study
This study will measure resting state network central nervous system activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during 4 separate interactions with a clinician. 1. Hypothesis 1.
- Trial name
- NCT01432288
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University
Menopause, Sleep
Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Non-interventional Clinical Research Institutional Ethics Committe
This research was carried out to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on sleep quality and fatigue in menopausal women.
- Conditions
- Menopause, Sleep, Fatigue, Therapeutic Touch
- Trial name
- NCT05075694
- Testing
- Therapeutic Touch
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cukurova University