Assessment of Cardiac Coherence Associated With Medical Hypnosis on Preoperative Anxiety in Oncological Surgery

NCT ID: NCT05197972

Last Updated: 2025-04-16

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

296 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-06-01

Study Completion Date

2026-12-31

Brief Summary

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The investigator proposes to use the cardiac coherence technique (Cardiac Coherence) coupled with a hypnosis session to reduce pre-operative anxiety.

Detailed Description

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The perioperative period is recognized as anxiety-provoking for most patients. In oncology, 60 to 80% of patients suffer from stress throughout their treatment. If for some patients, this anxiety is more or less manageable, for others, it is the major concern with regard to their intervention.

For many years, pharmacological premedication, especially with benzodiazepines, has been the gold standard for the treatment of preoperative anxiety, but this systematic prescription is increasingly controversial, especially in populations most exposed to side effects, such as elderly subjects and patients with cardiac or respiratory pathologies.

The aim of this study is to propose an alternative to pharmacological premedication by a non-drug approach.

The two techniques (the Fixed Rate Guided Breathing Technique = cardiac coherence and hypnosis) can potentiate each other and become synergistic. Thus, for patients undergoing oncological surgery, regular practice of cardiac coherence coupled with hypnosis prior to their surgery should enable them to better manage perioperative anxiety and thus significantly reduce their level of anxiety on the day of their surgery.

The association of the 2 techniques combines several advantages:

* It is totally "physiological", free and immediately available for the patient and without any undesirable effect;
* It gives autonomy to the patient to manage his stress, making him independent of chemical molecules, the presence of a third party or expensive equipment.
* It will allow oncology patients to use it throughout their care (invasive examinations, MRI imaging, heavy and complex care such as certain dressings, etc.)

This work will allow:

* To give oncology patients the possibility to be actors of their care by a self-management of their anxiety in substitution or complement of a medicated approach;
* To map anxiety in oncology surgery using a simple scale such as the EVA, which has not yet been done;
* To identify the most anxious patients in order to provide them with the appropriate management (pharmacological and/or NMI) before their surgery;
* To evaluate the correlation between the level of preoperative anxiety and the occurrence of postoperative adverse events;
* To evaluate the correlation between the level of anxiety and the quality of recovery (QoR) and the postoperative experience (EVAN-G).

Patients in the experimental group will be interviewed to explain how to perform the cardiac coherence and hypnosis sessions at home before the surgery.

Conditions

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Surgery Oncology

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Control group : classic management of the preoperative period Experimental group: classic management of the preoperative period with a cardiac coherence program coupled with hypnosis
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Experimental group

Classic management of the preoperative period with a cardiac coherence program coupled with hypnosis.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

cardiac coherence program coupled with hypnosis

Intervention Type OTHER

At home the patient will perform the cardiac coherence sessions between 7 days and a maximum of 15 days before the surgery through the application "Respirelax": 3 sessions per day, lasting 5 minutes with a breathing frequency of 6 cycles/min for a period of 7 days minimum and maximum 15 days.

An audio tape read in a hypnotic tone can be listened to by the patient during the cardiac coherence program or at another time of the day (see the text of the audio tape).

Control group

Classic management of the preoperative period

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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cardiac coherence program coupled with hypnosis

At home the patient will perform the cardiac coherence sessions between 7 days and a maximum of 15 days before the surgery through the application "Respirelax": 3 sessions per day, lasting 5 minutes with a breathing frequency of 6 cycles/min for a period of 7 days minimum and maximum 15 days.

An audio tape read in a hypnotic tone can be listened to by the patient during the cardiac coherence program or at another time of the day (see the text of the audio tape).

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age ≥ 18 years old
2. Patient with a scheduled surgery for a cancer (suspected or declared) with a classic or ambulatory hospitalization
3. Patients requiring general anesthesia with or without associated loco-regional anesthesia or loco-regional anesthesia alone
4. Patient with a smartphone or a tablet or a computer and able to install the application
5. Inclusion of the patient minimum 7 days before the date of the surgery
6. Patient who signed the informed consent
7. Patient affiliated to a French social security system

Exclusion Criteria

1. Emergency surgery
2. Plastic surgery for reconstruction: lipomodelling
3. Prophylactic surgery: no suspected or existing cancer
4. Bradycardia (\< 50 beats/minute) with β-blockers
5. Severe heart failure with ventricular ejection fraction \< 40%
6. Uncontrolled chronic pain for more than three months on morphine
7. Patient with unstable epilepsy or respiratory pathology with rest dyspnea
8. Patient used to and having a regular and habitual practice of relaxation techniques such as yoga, hypnosis, sophrology, meditation, music therapy, virtual reality, ...
9. Medical (neurological, psychiatric, etc.) or psychological conditions not allow for participation in the protocol (completion of questionnaires and booklet, compliance with the cardiac coherence program coupled with hypnosis)
10. Deaf patient without hearing aids
11. Patient under guardianship or curatorship
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jibba AMRAOUI, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Institut régional du cancer de Montpellier

Régis FUZIER, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole

Lauriane Bordevane, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris

Locations

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Institut régional du cancer de Montpellier

Montpellier, Hérault, France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Léon Bérard

Lyon, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole

Toulouse, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Institut Gustave Roussy

Villejuif, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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France

Central Contacts

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Jean-Pierre BLEUSE, MD

Role: CONTACT

4 67 61 31 02 ext. +33

Facility Contacts

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Jibba AMRAOUI, MD

Role: primary

4 67 61 30 81 ext. +33

Grégoire MD WALLON

Role: primary

+334 78 78 29 71

Régis FUZIER, MD

Role: primary

Alexandra VOICU, MD

Role: primary

+331 42 11 59 34

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Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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2021-A01524-37

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

PROICM 2021-09 COH

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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