Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-24 @ 7:44 PM
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2025-12-24 @ 7:44 PM
NCT ID:
NCT04295603
Brief Summary:
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).
Detailed Description:
This is a monocentric study with a design of non-randomized cluster trial with an exploratory qualitative part. The treatment is assigned to one of two care units and subjects are allocated to the care unit not according to a randomization process but based on administrative basis.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of Toucher-Massage (TM) on the experience of patients with chronic pain hospitalized in two rehabilitation internal medicine services.
The main objective is to measure the effects of TM on the global impression of change of the perception of pain.
The secondary objectives are:
1. Measure the effects on
1. the severity and impact of pain
2. anxiety/depression
3. caregiver-patient interaction
2. Explore the experiences of patients benefiting from TM
3. Explore perceptions, resistance, barriers and facilitators regarding the proposed interventions with the health care teams of the units.
The population is patients suffering from chronic pain in two units of the internal medicine rehabilitation service at Beau-Séjour. The two units are similar in terms of care intake and populations cared for.
The required sample size is 78 participants (39 per group)
Study:
NCT04295603
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT04295603