Essential Oils on Anxiety of Patients Suffering From Cancer (RHECAP)

Center Eugene Marquis

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Neoplasm Metastasis

Treatments: Other: Oil massages; Other: Essential oils massages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02835352

2014-AH-DOUL-SC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the impact of essential oils massage on anxiety of patients who are suffering from cancer at a metastasis stage. Half of patients will be massaged first by essential oils and then by oil only. The other half will be massaged first by oil and then by essential oils.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult suffering from cancer at a metastatic stage
• Life expectancy > 15 days, assessed by investigator
• Hospitalized at the Chevrel unit from Centre Eugène Marquis, palliative unit care, for more than 15 days
• Regular anxiolytic treatment or imperative need to introduce anxiolytic treatment (assessed by investigator) within 48 hours following his hospitalization entry
• > 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Patient already recruited in a therapeutic trial
• Patient not covered by a social security system
• Pregnant or likely pregnant patient, breastfeeding patient
• Allergy to any component of essential oils mixture and vegetable oils : bitter orange petitgrain, fine lavender, ylang-ylang, macadamia
• Minors, people deprived of their liberty or protected people,
• Impaired cognitive functions making impossible to obtain informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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29 participants in 2 patient groups

Essential oils then oil massages

Experimental group

Description:

Essential oils massages will be done as needed during a period of 7 days, then oïl massages as needed will be done during a follow-up period of 7 days

Treatment:

Other: Oil massages

Other: Essential oils massages

Oil then essential oils massages

Experimental group

Description:

Oil massages will be done as needed during a period of 7 days, then essential oïl massages as needed will be done during a follow-up period of 7 days

Treatment:

Other: Oil massages

Other: Essential oils massages