The Benefit of Enhanced Day Care of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Retrospective Study of Medical Records

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

401 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-06-11

Study Completion Date

2020-06-11

Brief Summary

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We collected medical records since June 2017 to November 2019., used pair-T test for questionnaire of CTCAE, BFT-I, WHOQOL to evaluate the benefit of enhanced day care of TCM for cancer patients.

Detailed Description

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using TCM method as Complementary and Alternative Medicine is worldwide. we collected medical records that using TCM methods for adverse event from cancer therapies. we used CTCAE BFI-T and WHOQOF-BREF to evaluate the benefit.

Conditions

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Chemotherapy-Induced Change

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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enhanced day care of TCM include acupuncture, massage, tai ji quan, TCM herbal medicine

acupuncture twice in enhanced day care of TCM massage twice in enhanced day care of TCM tai ji quan one time in enhanced day care of TCM TCM herbal powder three times a day

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- The medical records since June 2017 to December 2019 needed to meet the following criterial: (1)age\>20 years old, (2)diagnosis meet ICD10:C00.0-C97 (3) needed to do Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE), scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T) and scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF), and those scales needed to be done pretest when patient came to the clinics and posttest when case end.

Exclusion Criteria

\- The subjects will be excluded if they do not complete pretest and posttest of the following scales:(1) Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE, (2) BFI-T scale (3) WHOQOL-BREF scale

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Taipei city hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Site Status

Countries

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Taiwan

References

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Wu HA, Chen CH, Hsieh MH, Wu YC, Chiu JP, Huang CJ, Hsu CH. The Benefit of Enhanced Daycare of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Treatment Related Adverse Events: A Retrospective Study of Medical Records. Integr Cancer Ther. 2021 Jan-Dec;20:15347354211025634. doi: 10.1177/15347354211025634.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 34142595 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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TCHIRB-10905008-E

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id