Reiki Effects on Pain, Functional Status and Holistic Well-Being in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Reiki Therapy on Pain, Functional Status and Holistic Well-being in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05665959
• Other study ID #: 129
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: June 24, 2022
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: Ankara Medipol University
• Contact: Nursemin Unal
• Phone: +905077433629
• Email: nurse_unal[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aimed to examine the effect of Reiki therapy on pain, functional status and holistic well-being in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Description:

Knee osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative joint disease that causes pain in individuals and negatively affects their functional status and overall well-being. Patients often benefit from non-pharmacological methods in pain control. Reiki, expressed as "universal life energy", is a kind of energy therapy that creates the appropriate conditions required by the body's natural healing system in rebalancing and recharging human energy fields. Although Reiki studies in the field of orthopedics are limited, it is revealed that Reiki improves physical function, reduces fatigue and increases emotional well-being in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Studies evaluating the effectiveness of Reiki in patients undergoing total knee replacement have evaluated that Reiki is effective in controlling postoperative pain, reducing blood pressure, respiratory rate, and state anxiety.

The study was conducted with patients with knee osteoarthritis who applied to the orthopedic outpatient clinic of a training and research hospital between June 24, 2022 and December 31, 2022. The data of the study was collected using "Patient Information Form (PIF)", "Visual Analog Scale (VAS)", "Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC)" and "Holistic Well-Being Scale (HWS).

PIF, VAS, WOMAC and HWS were applied to the patients who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study. Patients were randomized 1:1 into groups by a single therapist according to the block randomization method. There were two arms in the study; Reiki treatment (n=21) and control group (n=21). A second-degree Reiki practitioner applied Reiki to the patients for 40 minutes. On the second day and the third day, 30 minutes distant Reiki were applied to the patients. In the control group, nothing was done. Post-tests were applied to all patients 3 days and 10 days after they were included in the study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: January 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 20, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Grade 2-3 osteoarthritis according to the Kellgren Lawrence scale,

• Patients aged 40 and over

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who have difficulty in responding to the data collection form to be used in the research and have problems in understanding and communicating Turkish,

• Those who refuse to answer the Reiki application and data collection tools,

• Those who want to leave at any stage of the research or cannot be reached by phone,

• Those who underwent an application such as physical therapy, intraarticular injection or prolotherapy during the research process,

• Those who used any Complementary and Alternative Method (CAM) in the last 6 months were excluded from the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Knee Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Reiki
Reiki is based on the belief that disease occurs when an energy center is blocked, and that the energy is transmitted through touch. In distant Reiki, Reiki practitioners followed the traditional Usui Reiki protocol for distant healing.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Nursemin Ünal	Ankara	None Selected

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ankara Medipol University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (6)

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McConnell S, Kolopack P, Davis AM. The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC): a review of its utility and measurement properties. Arthritis Rheum. 2001 Oct;45(5):453-61. doi: 10.1002/1529-0131(200110)45:53.0.co;2-w. No abstract available. — View Citation

Notte BB, Fazzini C, Mooney RA. Reiki's effect on patients with total knee arthroplasty: A pilot study. Nursing. 2016 Feb;46(2):17-23. doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000476246.16717.65. — View Citation

Topdemir EA, Saritas S. The effect of Acupressure and Reiki application on Patient's pain and comfort level after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A randomized controlled trial. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2021 May;43:101385. doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101385. Epub 2021 Apr 2. — View Citation

Tuzun EH, Eker L, Aytar A, Daskapan A, Bayramoglu M. Acceptability, reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Turkish version of WOMAC osteoarthritis index. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2005 Jan;13(1):28-33. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2004.10.010. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Personal Information Form	The form created by the researchers included 11 questions covering the sociodemographic characteristics of the patients such as gender, age, marital status and the characteristics of the disease/treatment process.	Baseline
Primary	Visual Analog Scale	It is a reliable and easily applicable scale used to measure the severity of pain in patients, accepted in the world literature. The scale, which was used to digitize the values that could not be measured numerically, was used to evaluate the pain intensity of the patients. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 10 points can be obtained from the scale. In addition, high scores indicate increased pain intensity.	Change from baseline Visual Analog Scale at 3 days and 10 days
Primary	Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index	It is a valid and reliable index that is widely used for the evaluation of patients with osteoarthritis. The WOMAC Osteoarthritis index, which was validated and reliable in Turkish by Tüzün et al. in our country, consists of three sections and 24 questions in which pain, stiffness and physical function are questioned. Each question was scored on a Likert scale as 0=absent, 1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=very severe. The maximum scores that can be obtained from the index are 20 for the pain subgroup, 8 for stiffness, and 68 for physical function. High scores indicate increased pain and stiffness and impaired physical function.	Change from baseline Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index at 3 days and 10 days
Primary	Holistic Well-Being Scale	The scale is graded from disagree (1) to completely agree (10). The minimum score of the scale is 10 and the maximum score is 260, and as the score obtained from the scale increases, holistic well-being improves.	Change from baseline Holistic Well-Being Scale at 3 days and 10 days