How Breast Conservative Surgery (BCS) Affects Women's Daily Activities On Post-Operation 2 Days?

NCT ID: NCT00265213

Last Updated: 2008-02-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2005-05-31
• Study Completion Date: 2006-02-28

Brief Summary

we revise 8 disability items from SPADI into Chinese to develop a simple self-completion questionnaire for the assessment of restriction in daily activities resulting from breast conservative surgery.

The purpose of this study was to validate the score obtained from this questionnaire by testing restriction of shoulder active flexion and abduction on examination at post BCS 2 days correlates with disability score.

Detailed Description

Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) is a breast cancer treatment using breast conservative surgery(BCS) with lymph node dissection and with or without following by radiotherapy(RT). (Morrow,2004). Results of BCTs demonstrate high rates of local tumor control with satisfactory cosmetic results. (Morrow,2004) Nowadays, the local treatment of breast cancer has slowly accepted from radical mastectomy with lymph node dissection to (BCT) in the last 100 years. (Morrow,2004) After surgical intervention for breast cancer carcinoma, the most frequent morbilities are lymphedema of the unilateral upper extremity and shoulder dysfunction. (Wingate L,1985; Grube, 2004)From the perspective of the Institute of Medicine's(IOM), the outcome measures shifts from the impairment-based measures to functional limitation measures. (Jette AM,1995) Base on the third element in Donabedian's framework of quality of physical therapy care, the determination of outcomes in terms of death, morbidity, disability, or quality of life. (Jette AM,1995)Although shoulder active range-of-motion exercises could start at the day right after any type or level of lymph node dissections for breast cancer patients, (Staradub VL, 2004;Wingate L,1985) in my literature review results, no functional evaluation questionnaires that was sensitive enough to detect the disabilities resulting from lymph node dissections at post BCS 2 days. So we revise 8 disability items from SPADI into Chinese to develop a simple self-completion questionnaire for the assessment of restriction in daily activities resulting from breast conservative surgery.

The purpose of this study was to validate the score obtained from this questionnaire by testing restriction of shoulder active flexion and abduction on examination at post BCS 2 days correlates with disability score.

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Study Design

• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• post breast conservative surgery 2 days
• with lymph node dissection

Exclusion Criteria

• total SPADI score is not zero

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

Ching Chun Lin, PT,CAS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Rehabilitation department, Kaoshing Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Locations

Rehabilitation department,Kaoshing Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Kaohsiung City, , Taiwan

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Taiwan

Central Contacts

Ching Chun Lin, PT,CAS

Role: CONTACT

jesipt@kmu.edu.tw

886-7-3121101 ext. 5961

Facility Contacts

Ching Chun Lin, PT,CAS

Role: primary

jesipt@kmu.edu.tw

886-7-3121101 ext. 5961

Other Identifiers

KMUH-IRB-940194

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id