NCT00646633

Improving Fatigue: A Pilot Study of Acupuncture and Patient Education for Breast Cancer Survivors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Based on the investigators clinical experience in patients with chronic disease (Hui, Hui, and Johnston, 2006; Hays et al 2005), a review of the literature (Johnston, Xiao and Hui 2007), and inspired by Vickers and colleagues (PMID: 15117996), the investigators carry out a pilot study that investigates if acupuncture combined with patient education will relieve fatigue in patients who have completed primary treatment for breast cancer.

Detailed description

Patients will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups. Our hypothesis is that patients in the acupuncture/education group will experience greater relief of fatigue than those in the standard care group.

Conditions

• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Acupuncture and patient education	Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles, much thinner than those used for drawing blood, into very specific acupuncture points. Patients will receive a total of 8 acupuncture treatments, each lasting 50 minutes. Patient education will be delivered to individuals over the course of approximately 50 minutes for each of the four sessions; topics will include acupressure, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and lifestyle advice.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-01-01
• Completion: 2009-10-01
• First posted: 2008-03-28
• Last updated: 2016-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States