Use of Medicinal Plants and Other Alternative and Complementary Medicines by Patients With Cancer in Reunion Island (CAMUCRI)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04932681

2021/CHU/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

Exploratory, observational and cross-sectional study with the aim of describing the use of plants for medicinal purposes (and other Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and identifying the determinants of this use. The methodology envisaged is mixed with an exploratory design combining qualitative (interviews) and quantitative techniques (questionnaires).

To knowledge of investigators, no study has been carried out in Reunion Island on the use of plants and other alternative and complementary medicines among cancer patients.

Enrollment: 520 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Living in Reunion Island
• Suffering from cancer (solid tumors, hematological malignancies)
• Able to answer a questionnaire
• Patient who does not oppose to the research

Exclusion criteria

• Person of legal age under guardianship or under legal protection
• Persons who do not understand French or Reunionese Creole

Trial design

520 participants in 2 patient groups

Qualitative group

Description:

Interview about the use of Complementary and Alternative Medecine

Quantitative group

Description:

Questionnaire about the use of Complementary and Alternative Medecine