Use of Medicinal Plants and Other Alternative and Complementary Medicines by Patients With Cancer in Reunion Island

• Conditions: Cancer

• Registration Number: NCT04932681
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion

Brief Summary

Exploratory, observational and cross-sectional study with the aim of describing the use of plants for medicinal purposes (and other Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and identifying the determinants of this use. The methodology envisaged is mixed with an exploratory design combining qualitative (interviews) and quantitative techniques (questionnaires).

To knowledge of investigators, no study has been carried out in Reunion Island on the use of plants and other alternative and complementary medicines among cancer patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-05-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-06-18
• Study First Posted: 2021-06-21
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-31
• Study Start: 2022-04
• Last Update Posted: 2022-04-08
• Primary Completion: 2023-04
• Study Completion: 2023-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 520

Inclusion Criteria

• Living in Reunion Island
• Suffering from cancer (solid tumors, hematological malignancies)
• Able to answer a questionnaire
• Patient who does not oppose to the research

Exclusion Criteria

• Person of legal age under guardianship or under legal protection
• Persons who do not understand French or Reunionese Creole

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Use of herbal medicine	Day 1	Proportion of patients using herbal medicine (from the patient's perspective) among cancer patients.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Need for Information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine	Day 1	Interviews between patient and interviewer will help to find out expectations about the need for information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine use from the patient's perspective and from the practitioner's perspective
Improving questionnaire after the practionners' focus group	Day 1	A practionners' focus group will be organised after the interviews to review the feedbacks and opinions on the questionnaire to improve the questionnaire for the quantitative part of the study
Barriers of dialogue between patient and practionner	Day 1	Interviews between patient and interviewer will help to extract the barriers limiting patient/practitioner dialogue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine use from patient and practitioner perspectives

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

CHU La Réunion; 🇷🇪 Saint-Denis, Réunion

Clinique Saint Clotilde; 🇷🇪 Sainte-Clotilde, Réunion