Acupressure for Fatigue in Elderly Cancer Patients

NCT04362904 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: TDK-2014-5025
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 31
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Fatigue

Keywords

Acupressure; Cancer; Fatigue; Elderly individuals; Nursing

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• 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

• 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

Other Outcomes (1)

• Acupressure Experience Patient Opinion Form

  four weeks

Study Arms (2)

acupressure

EXPERIMENTAL

In accordance with the acupressure protocol, each day for four weeks, taking into account the awakening and sleep periods of the individuals, acupressure applied for a total of 3 min to the each acupuncture points (one session 18 minutes) twice a day between 07:00 and 10:00 and 19:00 to 22:00 in the morning patients were asked to perform acupressure by their caregivers or on their own.

Other: acupressure

control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention was applied to the control group.

Interventions

acupressure OTHER

acupressure

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• 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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• TC Erciyes University: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Fatigue; Neoplasms

Interventions

Acupressure

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Therapy, Soft Tissue; Musculoskeletal Manipulations; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities; Rehabilitation

Study Officials

• ülkü özdemir

  TC Erciyes University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• sultan taşcı

  TC Erciyes University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: assistant professor doctor

Model Details: a randomized, controlled trial in pre-test post-test design

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 17, 2020
• First Posted: April 27, 2020
• Study Start: August 4, 2014
• Primary Completion: March 10, 2016
• Study Completion: March 10, 2016
• Last Updated: April 27, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share