Anxiety on the First Day of Chemotherapy

Namik Kemal University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: waiting room enriched with music, paintings and artificial plants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04839835

waitingroom

Details and patient eligibility

About

investigating chemotherapy anxieties

Full description

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women in the world, and it is the first in cancer-related deaths in women all over the world. In the treatment of breast cancer, in addition to surgery, patients with advanced stage or high risk of recurrence receive neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy treatments. This period starts with 3 months and extends according to the treatment protocols it will receive.

Since the first diagnosis of breast cancer, it has psychological effects such as intense stress, decrease in quality of life and anxiety as well as physical effects on patients. The time spent in the "waiting room" while patients are examined and receiving treatment before chemotherapy inevitably has an effect on their anxiety.

In this study; It was aimed to investigate the effects of environmental factors in waiting rooms on patients' anxiety.

Enrollment: 106 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to receive chemotherapy for breast cancer for the first time
• give consent for the study

Exclusion criteria

• not approving to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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106 participants in 2 patient groups

standard waiting room

No Intervention group

Description:

standard chemoterapy waiting room

waiting room enriched with art objects

Experimental group

Description:

waiting room enriched with music, paintings and artificial plants

Treatment:

Other: waiting room enriched with music, paintings and artificial plants