Randomized controlled trial of an 8-week intervention combining self-care and hypnosis for post-treatment cancer patients: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer has a lot of consequences on patients' quality of life (such as cancer-related fatigue (CRF), sleep difficulties and emotional distress) and on patients' partners and their relationship, such as distress and communication difficulties. These consequences are undertreated, and interventions based on hypnosis often focus on breast cancer patients only. This paper describes the study protocol of a longitudinal randomized controlled trial aiming to assess the efficacy of an 8-week intervention combining hypnosis and self-care to improve cancer patients' CRF, sleep and emotional distress and to indirectly improve their partners' distress.

Methods

A power analysis required a total sample of 88 patients. To test the efficacy of the intervention, results of the exp

SUBMITTER: Gregoire C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238378 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature