NCT04905576

Quality of Life Interventions During Cervical Cancer Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Iowa · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed project will examine the effects of a healing touch intervention in women receiving chemotherapy and radiation for advanced cervical cancer.

Detailed description

Patients receiving chemoradiation for cervical cancer are at risk for distress, chemoradiation-related side effects, and immunosuppression. This prospective randomized clinical trial proposes to examine the effects of a complementary therapy, Healing Touch (HT), versus relaxation training (RT) and usual care (UC) for (1) supporting cellular immunity, (2) improving mood and quality of life (QOL), and (3) reducing treatment-associated toxicities and treatment delay in cervical cancer patients receiving chemoradiation.

Conditions

• Cervical Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Relaxation training	Muscle relaxation training
BEHAVIORAL	Therapeutic touch	Healing Touch (HT) therapy
OTHER	Questionnaire administration
OTHER	Ancillary studies	Subjects in all groups will give 4 blood samples during the study

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-06-04
• Primary completion: 2008-03-15
• Completion: 2014-07-01
• First posted: 2021-05-27
• Last updated: 2021-05-27