NCT01570218

Musicotherapy in the Reduction of Fatigue in Women With Breast or Gynecological Cancer Under Radiotherapy

Randomized Clinical Trial Testing Musicotherapy in the Reduction of Fatigue in Women With Breast or Gynecological Cancer Under Radiotherapy.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 164 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Goias · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

OBJETIVE: To study the influence of musicotherapy in reduction of fatigue related to cancer in patients with breast's or gynecology's cancer, during the radiotherapy treatment.

Detailed description

METHODS: This is a randomized controled study (Control Group - CG e musicotherapy Group - MTG) wich values fatigue, life's quality, anxiety, depression by using evaluative instruments Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: Fatigue (FACT-F), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) in three different moments (during first week of radiotherapy, in the intermediate phase's week and during the last week of radiotherapy) for patients of both groups. Women allocated in MTG, in addition to the scales described above, answered the musicotherapy Questionary (MQ), and the Subjective Impression of the Subject's Questionary in last meeting. Musicotherapy sessions were individual and lasted an average of 40 minutes. Music therapeutic techniques used were Musical Audition (MA) and Therapeutic Musical Audition (TMA).

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Uterine Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Music therapy	Music therapy arm: Intervention with 10 sections of music therapy will be performed, twice a week, during 45 days

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2012-04-04
• Last updated: 2018-05-04

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Brazil