Autopsy report · NCT05625854

Using a Fan With Aromatherapy in Breathlessness Patients in Terminal Illness

“The study was terminated prior to reaching the planned sample size due to slow participant accrual. Recruitment was substantially hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, which restricted access to hospice inpatient units, and by the inherent difficulty of”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 1 month after it had already started.
• Ran for about 1 year 9 months before it stopped.
• 26 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

Tsai-Wei Huang

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Breathlessness; Aromatherapy; Fans; Terminal Illness

Interventions

Blow a fan to the face combine aromatherapy; Blow a fan to the face; Blow a fan to the feet

Participants

26

Sites

1

Countries

Taiwan

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Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.