Fatigue Clinical Trial
Official title:
Acupressure for Cancer Related Fatigue in Elderly Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study
Verified date | April 2020 |
Source | TC Erciyes University |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acupressure on the severity and level of cancer-related fatigue in elderly patients with cancer.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 31 |
Est. completion date | March 10, 2016 |
Est. primary completion date | March 10, 2016 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 65 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Age 65 and over - Who completed chemotherapy treatment for cancer at least a month ago - Least literate - Moderate to severe fatigue (VAS fatigue score 4 and above) - Platelet count> 50,000 - Hemoglobin levels> 9 g / dl - Hematocrit levels> 30% - Patients with an estimated survival time of more than three months Exclusion Criteria: - Comorbidities that may cause fatigue (eg moderate and severe heart failure, hypothyroidism, diabetes, multiple sclerosis) - Being diagnosed with a psychiatric disease - Nerve, soft tissue and vascular disease on acupressure areas (hand and leg) - Infection and surgery operations on acupressure areas (hand and leg) - Patients had chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other cancer treatment planned during the study |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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TC Erciyes University |
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Acupressure Experience Patient Opinion Form | In the qualitative phase of the study, the was used during in-depth interviews with the individuals in the acupressure group at the end of four weeks of acupressure application. It was developed as semi-structured interview by the researcher to learn the experiences and opinions of individuals. The form includes questions about acupressure (effects of acupressure, effects of fatigue, easy and difficult aspects of the application, whether to recommend acupressure application for fatigue). | four weeks | |
Primary | Visual Analog Scale | The scale is a 10-cm scale starts with a -0- representing "I don't feel tired", the other end is -10- "I feel very tired". 0-3 points show mild fatigue, 4-6 points moderate fatigue, 7-10 points indicate severe fatigue. The patients were asked to mark how tired they were during the last week on a scale of 0 to 10. The distance between the marked point and the lowest end of the line (0 = no fatigue) was measured in centimeters by the ruler and the numerical value was determined as the fatigue score of the patients. | four weeks | |
Primary | Piper Fatigue Scale | The scale evaluates the patient's subjective perception of fatigue with four sub-dimensions. These sub-dimensions are behavioral/severity sub-dimension that evaluates effects and intensity of fatigue on daily life activity (DLA), affective meaning sub-dimension that includes emotional meaning attributed to fatigue, sensory sub-dimension that reflects spiritual, physical and emotional symptoms of fatigue and cognitive/mood sub-dimension that reflects the level of effects of fatigue on cognitive functions and state of mind. The high scores obtained from the scale indicate that the perceived fatigue level is high.The validity and reliability study of the scale for the Turkish population was conducted by Can and the cronbach alpha coefficient was found to be 0.94. The cronbach's alpha coefficient in this study was 0.79 in the first follow-up and 0.94 in the second follow-up. | four weeks |
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