The Benefit of Enhanced Day Care of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Retrospective Study of Medical Records

Taipei City Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chemotherapy-Induced Change

Treatments: Combination Product: enhanced day care of TCM include acupuncture, massage, tai ji quan, TCM herbal medicine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04606121

TCHIRB-10905008-E

Details and patient eligibility

About

We collected medical records since June 2017 to November 2019., used pair-T test for questionnaire of CTCAE, BFT-I, WHOQOL to evaluate the benefit of enhanced day care of TCM for cancer patients.

Full description

using TCM method as Complementary and Alternative Medicine is worldwide. we collected medical records that using TCM methods for adverse event from cancer therapies. we used CTCAE BFI-T and WHOQOF-BREF to evaluate the benefit.

Enrollment: 401 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The medical records since June 2017 to December 2019 needed to meet the following criterial: (1)age>20 years old, (2)diagnosis meet ICD10:C00.0-C97 (3) needed to do Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE), scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T) and scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF), and those scales needed to be done pretest when patient came to the clinics and posttest when case end.

Exclusion criteria

• The subjects will be excluded if they do not complete pretest and posttest of the following scales:(1) Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE, (2) BFI-T scale (3) WHOQOL-BREF scale