The Effect of Walking and Grounding in Women With Breast Cancer

NCT ID: NCT06767059

Last Updated: 2025-08-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 54 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-01-30
• Study Completion Date: 2026-03-15

Brief Summary

This randomized controlled trial was conducted to examine the effect of walking and grounding on pain intensity, fatigue level and sleep quality in women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Detailed Description

Grounding is the flow of electrons by direct contact of the body's natural electric charge with the earth. There are many methods of grounding. Earthing systems can be used while sitting or sleeping, or the cheapest and easiest way is to walk barefoot in a grassy park, garden or beach. Earthing improves circulation by increasing blood flow and oxygenation of each organ system, positively affecting cardiovascular function. Hormones normalize, cortisol drops, blood sugar stabilizes, sleep improves, energy increases and inflammation decreases. When electrical contact between the body and the earth is re-established through grounding, organ system function begins to optimize again. When people are grounded, they feel more alive, healthy and energized than when they are ungrounded. The literature reports that human grounding has many positive effects on pain, sleep and fatigue. Grounding can be an effective method in managing pain, fatigue and sleep problems, which are among the most common problems in patients with breast cancer. Earthing is one of the biggest challenges of the modern world. City life, contact with the land The decline of the earth's energy supply, living and working indoors, and wearing plastic shoes disrupt our natural energy circuit. Although barefoot walking is the cheapest and easiest way to become grounded, dirty soil, foot This method may be a disadvantage for women with breast cancer due to conditions such as wounding of the base. In this study, a conductive device is used for grounding cancer patients by providing indirect contact with the soil.

grounding will be ensured while walking with the stick. While grounding has many positive effects on health, no grounding study was found in the literature review in the field of nursing. This study is a part of both the It is thought to positively affect the pain, fatigue and sleep problems of women with breast cancer by walking with shoes and providing grounding in order to use the positive effects of grounding.

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Walking Group

Patients will walk for 30 minutes at least 3 times a week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Walking Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients will be asked to walk for 30 minutes at least 3 times for 8 weeks. In order to ensure regular follow-up, patients will be asked to write on the walking tracking form when they walk and the number of steps before they start walking and the number of steps after walking using the application.

Grounding Group

Patients will walk with a grounding stick for 30 minutes at least 3 times a week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Grounding Group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients will be asked to walk with a grounding stick for 30 minutes at least 3 times for 8 weeks. Patients will be asked to fill in the walking follow-up form and grounding follow-up form for regular follow-up.

Control Group

Routine follow-up will be done.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Walking Group

Patients will be asked to walk for 30 minutes at least 3 times for 8 weeks. In order to ensure regular follow-up, patients will be asked to write on the walking tracking form when they walk and the number of steps before they start walking and the number of steps after walking using the application.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Grounding Group

Patients will be asked to walk with a grounding stick for 30 minutes at least 3 times for 8 weeks. Patients will be asked to fill in the walking follow-up form and grounding follow-up form for regular follow-up.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older,
• Can read and write and speak Turkish,
• Diagnosed with primary breast cancer and know the diagnosis,
• Volunteered to participate in the research,
• Living in Ankara province,
• Paclitaxel or Paclitaxel-Transtuzumab based chemotherapy treatment initiated,
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Scale 0 or 1,
• NCI-CTCAE v5.0 Pain, fatigue and sleep toxicity grade 1 or 2,
• You have a phone with an iOS or Android processor,

Exclusion Criteria

• Open wounds or edema of the hands and feet,
• NCI-CTCAE v5.0 motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy with toxicity grade 3,4 or 5,
• People with a disability that would prevent them from walking,
• Diagnosed cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders,
• Diagnosed psychiatric illness,
• Communication problems,
• Bone metastases,
• Bilateral mastectomies,

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

Sponsors

Ankara University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Baise Bicav

Science Specialist Lecturer

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Baise Bicav, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ankara University

Sevinç Kutlutürkan, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ankara University

Locations

Gazi University Health Research and Application Center Gazi Hospital

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

Baise Bicav

Role: CONTACT

baisebicav@gmail.com

05454702157

Sevinç Kutlutürkan

Role: CONTACT

skutluturkan@ankara.edu.tr

03122126040

Other Identifiers

AÜ-HEM-BB-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id