Needs Assessment of Cancer Patients With Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Completed

• Conditions: Chemotherapy Effect; Cancer

• Registration Number: NCT03954509
• Lead Sponsor: Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Brief Summary

The chronic cancer status, multidisciplinary and ambulatory care, as well as the cumbersome effects of the disease and treatments, lead patients to consider other options than those offered by traditional medicine, such as alternative medicine and complementary (CAM)

Detailed Description

In order to put in place a policy on CAM based on the knowledge held by the patient and the health professionals, it is imperative to obtain and analyze the following information: why this type of medicine is used, what are its benefits, how does the patient get information and what are his sources, who practices them and how the patient perceives the place of the hospital and the various health professionals to develop and secure the use of CAM.

Our study will focus on CAM that can bring iatrogenic risk (phytotherapy, food supplements, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, essential oils), and the following techniques: hypnosis and sophrology.

The study is carried out in two successive phases: the interview phase which will make it possible to obtain results to carry out the questionnaires phase. Patients who will be included in the interview phase will not participate in the questionnaire phase. Finally, patients who participate in the questionnaire phase will not have semi-structured interviews. They will only have to answer the questionnaire.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-07-09
• Study First Submitted: 2018-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-05-15
• Study First Posted: 2019-05-17
• Primary Completion: 2020-07-09
• Status Verified: 2023-04
• Study Completion: 2023-04-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-26
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 64

Inclusion Criteria

• Woman and man over 18
• Francophone (speaking and reading French)
• Patient followed for the management of cancer, hospitalized or not, receiving or having already received a treatment cancer administered orally and / or systemically.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient who has not been treated for cancer with anticancer treatment
• Support in a palliative care service
• Refusal to participate in the study
• Patient under tutorship or curatorship
• Patient deprived of liberty

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evaluation of the perception of patients regarding complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in the management of cancer or its complications but also the place of different health professionals.	Time of inclusion	This evaluation is carried out using a semi-directed interview, then a questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of the CAM supply sources	Time of inclusion	e.g community pharmacies, supermarket, internet)
Number of iatrogenic risks related to CAM and chemotherapy	Time of inclusion	CAM used by cancer patients and their chemotherapy
Number of factors influencing the consumption of CAM	Time of inclusion	e.g. age, sex, type of cancer, perpeptions of the CAM
Identification of the roles of health professionals in the patient's treatment process to help secure information about CAM	Time of inclusion	questionnaire (eg health professionals,roles)
Prevalence of CAM used in cancer patients	Time of inclusion	Number of cancer patients that use CAM
Number of the information sources used by patients	Time of inclusion	questionnaire (eg internet, health professionals, TV)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph; 🇫🇷 Paris, France