Table 1.
Patients Who Ascribed Perceived Health Improvements to Energy Healing Treatment.
| Randomized to healing (RH) or self-selected healing (SH) | Betty (RH) | Erica (RH) | Marge (RH) | Anne (RH) | Vivi (SH) | John (SH) | Eve (SH) | Carol (SH) | Alan (SH) | Mia (SH) | Eddy (SH) | Eric (SH) | Jo (SH) | Ron (SH) | Martin (SH) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 48 | 80 | 68 | 48 | 75 | 50 | 69 | 36 | 78 | 60 | 64 | 70 | 51 | 65 | 58 |
| Ascribed changes to treatment | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Ambivalent regarding changes | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| Extraordinary experiences related to treatment | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Incremental healing | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Spiritual orientation | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Previous use of energy healing (EH) | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
| Previous use of complementary/alternative medicine | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Positive expectations of EH | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Accepting EHs etiology | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Being active and positive as important | X | X | X | X | X |