Publications by authors named "C Ritenbaugh"
Research Questions: How do participants with anxiety receiving distance healing using tuning forks, experience healing sessions? What outcomes do they spontaneously report?
Theoretical Framework: Modified grounded theory, using single interviews to learn about experiences with distant sound healing.
Methodology: Standardized open-ended, qualitative interviews of 30-minute length were conducted after the intervention and analyzed using an inductive and iterative process for identifying themes, categories, and patterns in qualitative data.
Context: Single-arm, pilot feasibility study of Biofield Tuning (BT) for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic delivered at a distance facilitated by Zoom (without video).
Objectives: This study examined the feasibility and effectiveness of a virtually-delivered, biofield-based sound healing treatment to reduce anxiety for individuals meeting criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Design: This one-group, mixed-method feasibility study was conducted virtually via Zoom during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. Fifteen participants with moderate to high levels of anxiety as determined by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (≥10), were enrolled.
Background: Research in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) encounters a variety of challenges, such as potentially synergistic, multimodal, and complex interventions which are often dependent on the relationship between practitioner and patient, on specific settings, and on patients' individual preferences, expectations, beliefs, and motivations. Moreover, patients seeking CAM care often suffer from chronic disease conditions, and multiple symptoms and/or pathologies. On the other hand, CAM interventions are often challenged as being solely dependent on subjective and nonspecific factors without biologically based mechanisms of action.
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- - The study investigates how Oregon's Medicaid system is implementing new guidelines for treating back and neck pain using a Whole Systems framework, which looks at the relationship between complementary health care and conventional medical systems.
- - Preliminary findings from an observational study highlight the challenges of integrating complementary and integrative health care (CIH) therapies into Medicaid billing processes, including issues like reimbursement and provider awareness.
- - The authors suggest that examining these challenges through a Whole Systems perspective can provide insight into effectively combining various health care approaches within a state-financed system like the Oregon Health Plan.