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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Interventions in Targeting Pain
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating RR intervention for Quadrantectomies and 4 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 128 participants.
Detailed Summary
This Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial aimed at determining the effectiveness of a modified RR intervention in reducing post-operative pain and psychological symptoms in patients undergoing surgery intervention. Researches hypothesized that compared to controls patients undergoing modified RR intervention were characterized by 1. improved capability to discriminate emotions from bodily feelings; 2. reduce emotional distress; 3. reduced pain perception. Moreover, researches hypothesized that (4) these effects were maintained over time.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The short psychological intervention consists of a narrative interview and a psychocorporeal intervention. Narrative interview: this is an interview aimed at exploring the experience and awareness of illness. The sharing of the dimension of pain and suffering, the verbalization of emotions, the narration of the history of illness, expectations and fears related to the intervention will be aimed at an emotional and cognitive restructuring of the experience of illness, improving the perception of internal resources and resilience. Psycho-corporeal intervention:it is a training to the psychophysiological technique of the "Relaxation Response" (R.R.) of Hebert Benson (Mind-Body Medical Institute of Havard), aimed at stress management and consequently at reducing the perception of pain