EFFECTS OF ENERGY HEALING ON PROSTATE CANCER

能量治疗对前列腺癌的影响

• 批准号: 7608182
• 负责人: JOAN E.B. FOX
• 金额: $ 1.86万
• 依托单位: CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2007-09-16
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7608182
• 关键词: Affect; Anxiety; Atrial Natriuretic Factor; Biological Assay; Blood; Cancer Patient; Client; Collaborations; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Diagnosis; Disease; Disease Progression; Funding; Goals; Grant; Healed; Hydrocortisone; Institution; Intervention; Malignant Neoplasms; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Measures; Methods; Modality; Newly Diagnosed; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Patients; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Physicians; Physiological; Pilot Projects; Placebos; Population; Prostate-Specific Antigen; Psyche structure; Psychiatrist; Psychometrics; Quality of life; Radical Prostatectomy; Reiki; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Salivary; Scientist; Serum; Serum Markers; Source; Spirituality; Standards of Weights and Measures; Symptoms; Testing; United States National Institutes of Health; Week; base; dehydroepiandrosterone; design; healing; improved; insight; instrument; psychologic; psychosocial; tumor progression

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The goal of our studies is to determine whether CAM modalities can improve disease progression or the quality of life or for cancer patients. Anxiety is reported more often than any other psychological symptom in patients with or surviving cancer. Cnxiety is of concern as it has been implicated in cancer progression. Current methods of anxiety reduction include medication and psychosocial interventions that requrie active mental engagement by the patient. A CAM modality used frequently by cancer patients is spirituality. One modality based on spirituality is entergy-healing. While clients often claim decreased anxiety following energy-healing, this has not been rigorously tested. Studies of the beneficial effects of energy-healing on disease states have been inconclusive and relied mainly on non-physiological outcome measures. Our aim was to design a study to determine whether energy-healing affects disease progression or anxiety in a cancer population, using physiological markers of outcome. Prostate cancer is a disease in which there is a serum marker for tumor progression, prostate specific antigen (PSA). Prostate cancer is also associated with hihg anxiety. The present application represents collaboration between physicians, basic scientists, psychiatrists, biostaticians, and energy healters. We propose a pilot study in which newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients will be provided with energy-healing treatments for 4-weeks during the 6-8 week period between initial diagnosis and radical prostatectomy. PSA levels will be used to assess disease progression. Anxiety states will be moniotred using salivary cortisol and DHEA assays as well as serum atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels in addition to validated psychometric instruments. The Specific Aims are: 1) to detrimine the effects of energy-healing on cancer activity as measured by PSA levels in the blood, 2) to determine the effects of energy-healing on anxiety states using validated psychometric instruments, 3) to determine the effects of energy-healing on physiologic anxiety as measured by cortisol, DHEA and ANP levels. By incorporating no-treatment, sham healing, and Reiki treatment groups, we will determine whether any effects observed could also be obtained by a sham healer. We anticipate that these studies will provide insights into whether energy-healing holds promise as an adjunct to standard

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 我们研究的目的是确定CAM模式是否可以改善癌症患者的疾病进展或生活质量。 在癌症患者或幸存者中，焦虑比任何其他心理症状都更常见。 由于其与癌症进展有关，因此引起关注。 目前减少焦虑的方法包括药物和心理社会干预，需要患者积极的精神参与。 癌症患者经常使用的CAM模式是灵性。 一种基于灵性的方式是进入治疗。 虽然客户经常声称在能量治疗后焦虑减少，但这并没有经过严格的测试。 能量治疗对疾病状态的有益影响的研究一直没有定论，主要依赖于非生理结果的措施。 我们的目的是设计一项研究，以确定能量愈合是否影响癌症人群的疾病进展或焦虑，使用结果的生理标志物。 前列腺癌是一种存在肿瘤进展的血清标志物前列腺特异性抗原（PSA）的疾病。 前列腺癌也与高度焦虑有关。 本申请代表了医生、基础科学家、精神病学家、生物统计学家和能量治疗师之间的合作。 我们提出了一项试点研究，其中新诊断的前列腺癌患者将提供能量愈合治疗4周期间6-8周期间的初步诊断和根治性前列腺切除术。 PSA水平将用于评估疾病进展。 除经验证的心理测量工具外，还将使用唾液皮质醇和DHEA测定以及血清心钠素（ANP）水平监测焦虑状态。 具体目标是：1）验证能量治疗对癌症活动的影响，如通过血液中的PSA水平测量的，2）使用经验证的心理测量仪器确定能量治疗对焦虑状态的影响，3）确定能量治疗对生理焦虑的影响，如通过皮质醇，DHEA和ANP水平测量的。 通过合并无治疗、假治疗和灵气治疗组，我们将确定观察到的任何效果是否也可以通过假治疗者获得。 我们预计，这些研究将提供深入了解是否能量愈合持有承诺作为一个辅助标准