Cancer Patient Perceptions of the Osteopathy Treatment: a Qualitative Study

NCT02627638 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2013.826
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Cancer Patients

Keywords

osteopathy; complementary therapy; symptoms in cancer patients

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 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)

Study Arms (1)

Osteopathic treatment

OTHER

Other: Ostheopathic treatment

Interventions

Ostheopathic treatment OTHER

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

Osteopathic treatment

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• Non-communicating patients and patients whose cancer has been cured.
• Patients with fractural risk.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon: lead

Study Sites (1)

Médecine palliative - Groupement Hospitalier Lyon Sud- Hospices Civils de Lyon

Pierre-Bénite, 69495, France

Location

Related 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/s00520-018-4233-y. Epub 2018 May 4.

  PMID: 29728845 RESULT

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 9, 2015
• First Posted: December 11, 2015
• Study Start: April 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2014
• Study Completion: December 1, 2014
• Last Updated: May 28, 2019

Record last verified: 2015-09

Locations

FR (1)