The Impact of the Practice of Touch-massage on the Anxiety of Patients With Hematological Disorders Hospitalized in a Protective Environment, a Randomized, Controlled Study (TANDHEMS)

Nantes University Hospital (NUH)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hematologic Diseases

Treatments

Other: Touch-massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02343965

RC14_0202

Details and patient eligibility

About

Each year, 17000 cases of severe hematological diseases are diagnosed in France, with more than 6,000 of these requiring hospitalization in a protective, sterile environment. New methods, such as touch massage, have emerged in response to anxiety symptoms observed in patients in such sterile and isolated surroundings. We hypothesize that during the period of isolation, touch massage becomes a nursing care which can help the patient.

Full description

Patients with hematologic diseases (leukaemia, myeloma, lymphoma) hospitalized in a sterile area of a hematology unit for at least 3 weeks 18 to 65 years female or male Not having met the nurse, who is providing the touch-massage

Enrollment

62 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with hematologic diseases (leukaemia, Myeloma, lymphoma) hospitalized in a sterile area of a hematology unit for at least 3 weeks
18 to 65 years
Female or male
Not having met the nurse, who is providing the touch-massage

Exclusion criteria

Allergy to sweet almond oil
Injury to the skin, at the back and / or arms and / or hands
Cognitive impairment and / or preventing psychiatric responses to interviews and / or questionnaires
Physical inability to take sitting in an ergonomic chair for the conduct of touch massage.