Guided Imagery & Music in Cancer

Aalborg University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer Uterus Cervix; Cancer, Breast; Cancer, Metastatic; Cancer Ovaries

Treatments: Behavioral: standard care and verbal counselling; Behavioral: the Guided Imagery and Music method

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03936075

62/19-06-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an RCT pilot study to explore the potential effects of the Guided Imagery & Music method for women with breast or gynecologic cancer, during active treatment. The study explores the potential impact in quality of life parameters such as mood, fatigue, and hope.

Full description

Guided Imagery and Music is a music-assisted psychotherapy method which has been used as a complementary, supportive psychosocial therapy in cancer care. However, its effects have never been explored during the period of active chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment in various cancer populations, and especially gynecologic and breast cancer. This pilot study is an effort to explore the feasibility of the method to increase quality of life in this population by possibly reducing side-effects of treatment such as fatigue, improving mood, and building resilience as expressed through levels of hope.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Speaking Greek
• receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for breast or gynecologic cancer
• first occurrence or metastatic
• have an interest in engaging in creative psychotherapies through music

Exclusion criteria

• women with active psychosis or PTSD symptomatology
• women receiving other psychological support
• women too ill to participate according to doctors' instructions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

treatment with the provision of 6 individual sessions of the Guided Imagery and Music method as a psychological supportive intervention, and psychometric questionnaires collection

Treatment:

Behavioral: the Guided Imagery and Music method

control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

standard care treatment with psychometric questionnaires collection and two individual counselling sessions, at baseline (week 1) and at the end (week 6)

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard care and verbal counselling