Research Topics, Center for Spirituality and Healing, Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota

Ongoing and Potential Investigations in Complementary Therapies and Healing Practices

CAM Interventions

Ongoing

• Training a New Generation of CAM Clinical Investigators

• Acute Effects of Music on Stress in Ventilated Patients

• R-21 Music Intervention for Ventilated Patients

• Effects of Three Groin Compression Techniques on Patient Comfort and Complications After a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Procedure
• The Effects of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music on Sense of Coherence, Interpersonal Problems and Immunoglobulin A in Adults in Chemical Dependency Treatment

• Music Intervention for Ventilated Patients

• The Effect of Active Music Therapy Interventions on Anxiety and Coping Behaviors in Children with Cancer

• Voluntary cardio-respiratory synchronization, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Change

• Determining Sleep Apnea from Respiration and EKG Data

• Random Number Generator Investigation

• Psychophysiology of Sleeping and Waking in Mediators

• A Study of Cardiovascular Images Obtained Using Electrical Impedance Tomography

• Massage Therapy in Childhood Cancer

• Effects of Massage and Healing Touch in Cancer

• Explemplars of Novice Tellington Touch Practitioners: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

• Development Center for CAM Research (DCRC): Research to study whether taking Trametes Versicolor extract can boost and maintain the immune response following radiation therapy

Completed

• Impact of an Inner Life Formation Program on Health Professional Students and Practitioners

• Attitudes of Medical, Nursing, and Pharmacy Faculty and Students Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): A Comparative Analysis

• Hypovitaminosis D

• Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Symptom Management in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

• Melaleuca alternifolia Essential Oil for Treatment of Wounds Infected with Staphylococcus aureus

• Use of complementary therapies, adherance, and quality of life in lung transplant recipients 

• Feasibility of an Individualized Music Intervention
• Individualized vs. Classical Music on Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders

• Individualized vs. Classical Music on Agitation in ADRD

• Music Therapy: Effects on Elders' Agitation in Long Term Care

• Voluntary cardio-respiratory synchronization: Hardware and Software Development and Evaluation

• Mushroom Extracts and Head Neck Cancer

• Enhancing Connections: Helping the mother with breast cancer support her child

• Aromatherapy for nausea and vomiting in children with cancer

• Complementary Interventions in Pain Management

• Complementary Alternative Medicine use in Children with Cancer and Specialty Pediatrics

• Imagery and Support in Breast Cancer

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curriculum Program Project

• The Effect of Mushroom Extract on Prostate Cancer

Global Health/Culturally-based Healing Traditions

Ongoing

• Hmong Illness Beliefs, Behaviors, and Care Structures

• Measuring Resilience Among East African Refugee War Trauma Survivors

• Quality of Life Among Refugee Torture Survivors

Completed

• Hmong Shamanism in Minnesota and Hmong Health Care Choices

• Cross-cultural Comparison of Explanatory Models of Dementia and the Family Caregiving Experience in African-Americans and European Americans Living in the Arkansas Delta

Spirituality and Ethics

Ongoing

• Ethical Decision-Making about the End of Life

• Korean Nursing Students' Experience of Ethical Problems and Use of Ethical Decision-Making Models

• Measuring Resilience Among East African Refugee War Trauma Survivors

• Quality of Life Among Refugee Torture Survivors

Completed

• A Model for Teaching Nursing Ethics 

• Ethical Problems Experienced by EldersEthical Problems Experienced by Persons with AIDS

• Nursing Students' Experience of Ethical Problems and Use of Ethical Decision-Making Models

• Perspectives of Nurses' Aides on Their Attitudes, Roles, and Expectations in Nursing Homes

• Resilience in Refugee War Trauma Survivors: Pilot Study