Needs Assessment of Cancer Patients With Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Cancer Clinical Trial

— MAC'EVAL  

Official title:

Needs Assessment of Cancer Patients With Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03954509
• Other study ID #: MAC'EVAL
• Status: Completed
• Start date: July 9, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 26, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The chronic cancer status, multidisciplinary and ambulatory care, as well as the cumbersome effects of the disease and treatments, lead patients to consider other options than those offered by traditional medicine, such as alternative medicine and complementary (CAM)

Description:

In order to put in place a policy on CAM based on the knowledge held by the patient and the health professionals, it is imperative to obtain and analyze the following information: why this type of medicine is used, what are its benefits, how does the patient get information and what are his sources, who practices them and how the patient perceives the place of the hospital and the various health professionals to develop and secure the use of CAM.

Our study will focus on CAM that can bring iatrogenic risk (phytotherapy, food supplements, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, essential oils), and the following techniques: hypnosis and sophrology.

The study is carried out in two successive phases: the interview phase which will make it possible to obtain results to carry out the questionnaires phase. Patients who will be included in the interview phase will not participate in the questionnaire phase. Finally, patients who participate in the questionnaire phase will not have semi-structured interviews. They will only have to answer the questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 64
• Est. completion date: April 26, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: July 9, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Woman and man over 18

• Francophone (speaking and reading French)

• Patient followed for the management of cancer, hospitalized or not, receiving or having already received a treatment cancer administered orally and / or systemically.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient who has not been treated for cancer with anticancer treatment

• Support in a palliative care service

• Refusal to participate in the study

• Patient under tutorship or curatorship

• Patient deprived of liberty

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Chemotherapy Effect

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph	Paris

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph	Hopital Antoine Beclere

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (17)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Evaluation of the perception of patients regarding complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in the management of cancer or its complications but also the place of different health professionals.	This evaluation is carried out using a semi-directed interview, then a questionnaire	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Prevalence of CAM used in cancer patients	Number of cancer patients that use CAM	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Number of factors influencing the consumption of CAM	e.g. age, sex, type of cancer, perpeptions of the CAM	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Number of iatrogenic risks related to CAM and chemotherapy	CAM used by cancer patients and their chemotherapy	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Number of the CAM supply sources	e.g community pharmacies, supermarket, internet)	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Number of the information sources used by patients	questionnaire (eg internet, health professionals, TV)	Time of inclusion
Secondary	Identification of the roles of health professionals in the patient's treatment process to help secure information about CAM	questionnaire (eg health professionals,roles)	Time of inclusion