Cancer Patient Perceptions of the Osteopathy Treatment: a Qualitative Study

Cancer Patients Clinical Trial

Official title:

Cancer Patient Perceptions of the Osteopathy Treatment: a Qualitative Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02627638
• Other study ID #: 2013.826
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: September 2015
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

For more than seven years an osteopath has been working in the palliative care unit (PCU) and in both palliative care mobile team (PCMT) as a member of the multidisciplinary team. The patients referred to the osteopath by the palliative care physicians present pains related to cancer, but also to the treatment, in particular to surgery or radiotherapy. The osteopath can help with other symptoms such as constipation or dyspnoea. As this approach is provided in complement of the medicinal approach, it is not considered as an alternative medicine but as a complementary medicine associated to a conventional care. It seemed relevant to the investigators to ask the cancer patients undergoing osteopathic sessions for pain how they saw this complementary therapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Advanced illness patients with cancer pain, PS 0 to 2, willing to take part in the study and having signed the informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-communicating patients and patients whose cancer has been cured.

• Patients with fractural risk.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer Patients

Intervention

Other:
• Ostheopathic treatment
Once their clinical data were collected and their symptoms were assessed, all the enrolled patients had an osteopathic session a week during two weeks. After those sessions, they had an interview (scheduled between D11 and D14) with a psychologist

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Médecine palliative - Groupement Hospitalier Lyon Sud- Hospices Civils de Lyon	Pierre-Bénite Cedex

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Steel A, Tricou C, Monsarrat T, Ruer M, Deslandes C, Sisoix C, Filbet M. The perceptions and experiences of osteopathic treatment among cancer patients in palliative care: a qualitative study. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Oct;26(10):3627-3633. doi: 10.1007/s — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Thoughs and emotions of patients undergoing the two osteopathic sessions as complementary therapy for pain, evaluated using semi-directed interviews	Once clinical data were collected and symptoms were assessed, all the enrolled patients had an osteopathic session a week during two weeks. After those sessions, they had an interview (scheduled between J11 and J14) with a psychologist. The research assistant psychologist conducted the semi-directed interviews. The interview questions were geared toward eliciting open-ended responses to acquire specific information about the patient thoughts and emotions associated with osteopathic treatment. In our study, we conducted two preliminary interviews to test the quality of the questions we planned to use with the participants. The specific questions that were used during the interview are available on request from the authors.	around day 14 (after the second session)