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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02773719
Other study ID # 15-163
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date April 2016
Est. completion date November 2018

Study information

Verified date April 2016
Source University Hospital, Caen
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Traditionally, healers are willing to look after, two out of three French citizens have already appealed to them at least once during their lives. Many healers in good faith are exercising their magnetism as a "gift" often inherited from elders. Now, they create interest of doctors who do not hesitate in some cases to ensure their cooperation, to implicitly recognize their mysterious talents. Some serious studies have examined these practices: Several studies have been conducted on the influence of biofield therapies in pain, depression and fatigue in cancer disease. The investigators propose a study of the effect of magnetism on the wart disease whose cure is objectively assessable.

Sixty-two subjects in total would be included, comparing 2 proportions observed: the proportion of healing in the group treated with a "real" biofield therapist (recognized and affiliated to the National Group for Alternative Medicine in France) to the proportion of healing in the group treated with a "fake" biofield therapist (someone assessed as not having capacity to magnetize). The "fake" biofield therapist, placebo, has been trained to replicate gestures during a training validated by an independent recognized biofield therapist.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 62
Est. completion date November 2018
Est. primary completion date November 2018
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Patients with common warts on hands or feet for over at least 3 months are eligible for the study. Patients fulfilling one or more of the following criteria will not be included: lack of informed consent prior to randomization, younger than 18 years or under judicial protection, treated with oral corticotherapy for more than 6 months, immunosuppressed or with history of transplant surgery, undergoing chemotherapy or suspected to have carcinomatous warts, or patients with infected warts, injured warts or already treated within 90 days with chemical processing, medical device, surgery or ever treated with biofield therapy.

Subject will be excluded from the study if its warts was treated by other treatment during protocol.

- ulcerated wart

- cancerous wart

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
True Biofield therapy

Fake Biofield therapy


Locations

Country Name City State
France Caen University Hospital Caen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University Hospital, Caen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary disappearance of a common palmar or plantar wart week 3
Secondary disappearance of each other wart than the original one 3 weeks after the therapy week 3
Secondary Percentage of reduction of each wart will be calculated using mean diameter of each wart at W0 and W3 week3
Secondary Percentage of reduction of each wart will be calculated using mean diameter of each wart at W0 and W3 week 3
Secondary Disappearance of warts at 6 weeks week 6
Secondary Level of belief in biofield therapy of the subject week 0 week 6
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