Interest of Touch-massage in Hospital Day Care

NCT ID: NCT04348955

Last Updated: 2022-04-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 36 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-10-07
• Study Completion Date: 2020-05-12

Brief Summary

In spite of progresses made in the medical and nurse announcement (linked to the cancer plan), still a lot of patients fell lost, anxious, especially during the first venue at the hospital day care for their chemotherapy. A longer time is necessary to give them again explanation, to reassure and to listen to them. However, patients are not always in ability to hear due to their psychological status. Young women seem to be more in distress, this is linked to the fear of the disease, the change of their social status and the future of their children.

It must be noted that there is an increase of complementary therapies including Touch-Massage. Studies showed its interest on quality of life, anxiety, pain and fatigue.

The concept Touch-massage (TM) is defined as a benevolent concern that takes shape through the touch and the sequence of gesture on all or parts of the body. This allows to calm, to relax, to get back into shape, to reassure, to communicate or simply to provide well-being, enjoyable to receive and to practice.

This treatment is already offered to the patients at the ICO, in priority while the first course of chemotherapy, but in an informal way. I has been noticed a better-being after the TM, and an increase of demand from the patients. This is why it would be interested to measure the evolution of quality of life of those patients having a chemotherapy for a breast cancer getting or not a TM.

Detailed Description

The participation of the study will be offered to each patient coming for a first course of chemotherapy at the hospital day care for an adjuvant breast cancer. The tracking of the eligible patient will be done during the registration for the schedule.

The filling of the questionnaires will occur at the 4 first courses (C1 to C4). The Touch Massage will be offered for the 3 first courses of chemotherapy (C1 to C3). The patient can refuse the TM but she will have to fill the questionnaires.

At each moment, the patient can withdraw from the study, the TM can be offered according to the availability of the team and of the choice of the patient during the course of chemotherapy.

The questionnaire collection will be done in the patient's room. The quality of life will be evaluated based on the questionnaires EORTC, QLQ C30 and BR23 at C1 and C2. The evaluation of the quality of life at the fourth course will allow to estimate the quality of life after 3 complete courses of chemotherapy. Alongside, the anxiety will be evaluated with the anxiety scale STAI from C1 to C3, when the patient just arrives in the service and before she leaves. At the fourth course, the questionnaire will be filled only at the arrival.

After the filling of the questionnaires, the patient will be seen by the medical doctor of the service and the nurse who will take charge of her for the chemotherapy.

According the availability of the service, the patient will receive the TM if she wants. A member of the nursing staff formed to the TM (formation dispensed to the ICO) will perform the TM. It will be done during the chemotherapy, during the perfusion of ENDOXAN, which takes an hour. The TM will last 20 minutes. In this way, the TM will not delayed, prolonged and disturb the treatment. At C4, there will not be a TM.

Conditions

Breast Neoplasm Malignant Female

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

women with adjuvant breast cancer

Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized

Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Quality of life and anxiety questionnaires before the course of chemotherapy (C1 and C4).

Touch-Massage during the course of chemotherapy (from C1 to C3) Anxiety questionnaire at the end of the course of chemotherapy (from C1 to C3)

Interventions

Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized

Quality of life and anxiety questionnaires before the course of chemotherapy (C1 and C4).

Touch-Massage during the course of chemotherapy (from C1 to C3) Anxiety questionnaire at the end of the course of chemotherapy (from C1 to C3)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• women between 18 and 70 years old
• patient with histologically confirmed breast cancer
• adjuvant situation
• spoken language : french
• patient who never had chemotherapy in the past

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient unable to sit
• Malformation of the back
• Wound at the level of the zones to massage
• Patient placed under the authority of a tutor
• Pregnant patient

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 70 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Sandra PIQUIN, Nurse

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Insitut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest

Locations

Insitut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest

Angers, , France

Insitut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest

Angers, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

ICO-2019-08

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id