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COMplementary Hand-foot Massage to Improve Experience of illneSs Trial

NCT02741401 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 102

Last updated 2016-04-22

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Summary

The COMplementary hand-foot Massage to Improve experience of ilneSs trial (COMMIS trial) is a prospective, randomized trial and executed at a Western referral Centre: Zuyderland Medical Centre located Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands concerning patients who underwent surgery for gastrointestinal malignancy. During 5 consecutive days, the intervention group received postoperatively hand-foot massage administered by trained volunteers.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of complementary therapies concerning quality of life, pain, nausea, fatigue, sleeping problems, mood and stress in patients who underwent an operation as a result of gastrointestinal malignancy (stomach or colorectal).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Usual post-operative care

Usual post-operative care concerning patients who underwent surgery because of gastrointestinal malignancy

OTHER

Hand-foot massage

Hand-foot massage administered during 5 consecutive days postoperatively by trained volunteers, concerning patients who underwent surgery because of gastrointestinal malignancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan H. Stoot, Dr. · Zuyderland MC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-12-31

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