How Easy-to-Follow Exercises Can Help Cancer Patients With Anxiety While Receiving Chemotherapy

Christine Mavrogiannopoulou

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer; Exercise; Stress

Treatments: Other: Mild Exercise and stretches

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06943638

779/15-1-2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer is one of the main causes of death, and this study looks at how light exercise and stretching might reduce anxiety in patients receiving chemotherapy. The research took place in a hospital's daily care unit and used a study design where each patient was compared to themselves, measuring anxiety before and after the exercise program.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients (>18 years old) with cancer receiving chemotherapy
• Signed patient consent

Exclusion criteria

• The denial of the patient
• The occurrence of side effects from the treatment (such as dizziness, nausea, severe fatigue)
• Patients with low cognitive level where they could not follow simple instructions
• Patients with hearing disorders that prevented them from following simple instructions
• Patients who could not mobilize independently.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45 participants in 1 patient group

Mild exercise and stretching

Experimental group

Description:

They received individualized workout and stretching programme to relieve some of the stress

Treatment:

Other: Mild Exercise and stretches