EMDR Psychotherapy to Treat Anxious-depressive Symptoms in Breast Cancer Patient (PSYCANCER)

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing; Psychoterapy

Treatments: Behavioral: EMDR psychotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03271476

2017-01-CHRMT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will consist in an adjustment/adaptation of the "standard EMDR protocol" for cancer disease, and most particulary for women who present a breast cancer and during adjuvant therapy. It will also test the faisability of the research, with a view to adjust the calendar and the ressources to put at disposal for a randomized control trial that follow. This study will also allow to test the need and acceptibility of this new psychotherapy for the patient, and to identify facilitators and obstacles : participation/rejection ratio, inclusion rythm, adhesion of the medical staff about the project

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a woman aged of 18 years or more
• Having a primary invasive breast cancer
• Having undergo a mastectomy for a primary invasive breast cancer
• Being able to complete the questionnaires
• Being informed of the study and having signed the informed consent
• Being affiliated to a welfare system

Exclusion criteria

• having contraindications to recieve EMDR psychotherapy (neurologic disorders, dissociatif states, oculomotor issues)
• Having started adjuvant treatments following surgery
• Having metastatic breast cancer
• Presenting physical polypathologies
• Having psychiatric antecedents (included anxiety and depressif disorders - assessed with M.I.N.I. (Sheehan and al., 1997)).
• Having drug or alcohol addiction
• Being placed under the safeguard of justice, guardianship or trusteeship
• Being pregnant or breast-feeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Arms

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental: EMDR psychotherapy All the women will be in this arm and thus will receive the same intervention which is : 8 sessions (1 per week). The first session is an inclusion visit at Metz-Thionville Hospital, then 6 EMDR psychotherapy sessions and finally a last visit one month after for data recovery (questionnaire and semi-directive interview)

Treatment:

Behavioral: EMDR psychotherapy