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Teaching Parents Reiki for Their Adolescents Receiving Palliative Care
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Reiki for Palliative Care and Chronic Disease. Completed, enrolled 24 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
The proposed study addresses National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) priorities of advancing symptom science to "develop \[and\] test … novel, scalable symptom management interventions, including complementary health approaches (CHAs), in real-world clinical settings to improve health outcomes and quality of life" and the science of compassion to improve palliative and end-of-life care through "developing, testing, and implementing personalized, culturally congruent, and evidence-based palliative and hospice interventions that best address the needs of underserved, disadvantaged, and diverse populations across the care continuum." A long-term bonus of teaching parents to deliver Reiki is that Reiki is highly scalable and once learned, costs nothing to use, an important potential overall cost savings over other CHAs.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Reiki is a complementary health approach where trained providers place their hands lightly on or just above a person, in discrete positions, with the goal of facilitating the person's own healing response. A Reiki practitioner will perform the initial teaching and instruct the parent how to perform a simple 15-minute Reiki session. Parents will complete a return demonstration using light touch with their adolescent. Parents will be asked to complete a minimum of 15 minutes of Reiki with their adolescent at least five days per week for the four-week intervention period.