A Innovative Web-based Dance Movement Therapy

Chin-Tsung Shen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Other: web-based dance movement therapy training intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07474246

MacKay Medical University

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to develop an innovative web-based dance movement therapy (DMT) training platform and assess short-term outcomes before and after its implementation in women with breast cancer

Is the DMT training platform comprehensibility and acceptability among patients? Is the DMT training platform acceptability, usability, and feasibility among healthcare providers? Does the DMT training platform have effects on alexithymia and frailty among patients?

Researchers will compare experimental to a control (a a conventional care program) to see if DMT training platform works to treat severe asthma.

Participants will:

receive an orientation on the web-based DMT program before chemotherapy, along with a single face-to-face traditional education session on physical activity .

complete training sessions three times per week, with each session lasting at least 70 min.

Enrollment: 67 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who were about to start chemotherapy were recruited from a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan

Exclusion criteria

• major illness (e.g., heart failure, stroke, blindness) or a pre-existing mental disorder
• a history of limb amputation
• prior participation in dance therapy before their breast cancer diagnosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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67 participants in 1 patient group

The web-based DMT training intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: web-based dance movement therapy training intervention