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The Impact of Qigong on Quality of Life and Sleep Disturbance in Head and Neck Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy

NCT03136575 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2018-08-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aimed to observe how a six week qigong program influence patients with head and neck cancer during active radiotherapy treatment course. The quality of life, sleep dysfunction or depression and shoulder and neck function will be accessed by questionnaire, and ANS function will be objectively investigated using heart rate variability measurement.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Qigong

a 30 minutes exercise program, 3 times a week and lasts for 6 weeks during radiotherapy course

BEHAVIORAL

Wait-list control

patients enrolled in this group are informed orally to have exercise only and are arranged in a waiting list

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kaohsiung Medical University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-28
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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