Preoperative Massage in Breast Surgery Patients

Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Presurgical Anxiety; Anxiety

Treatments: Procedure: Massage therapy; Procedure: Standard of care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01667328

2012-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled interventional study is designed to determine whether breast cancer surgical patients receiving presurgical massage therapy performed by a licensed massage therapist have decreased average anxiety levels compared to the control group of breast cancer surgical patients who do not receive massage therapy.

Enrollment: 299 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female
• Must speak English
• Able to give consent
• 18 years of age or older
• Undergoing first procedure outpatient breast/axillary surgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

• Anxiolytics or antidepressants medications during the previous 24 hours
• Any condition that would prohibit receiving a massage
• IV medications prior to presurgical holding VAS assessment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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299 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Massage therapy

Experimental group

Description:

This group will received presurgical massage

Treatment:

Procedure: Massage therapy

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Standard of care with no massage

Treatment:

Procedure: Standard of care