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Massage, Oncology, Pain, Anxiety, Feasibility

NCT07502157 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2026-05-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the feasibility of studying massage therapy in patients with gynecologic cancers while receiving infusion treatments. The central hypothesis is that it is feasible to implement a massage intervention study in an infusion center at an academic hospital, and measure pain and anxiety in patients with gynecological cancer. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Can investigators evaluate feasibility to conduct a study from a design standpoint? Can investigators assess the use of randomization, blinding of assessors, potential to control the study with an attention group, and recruitment/retention processes? Can investigators successfully collect outcome measures of pain and anxiety, pre/post intervention? Researchers will investigate degree of resources needed, such as massage therapists, assessors, and timing of delivery intervention. Assess positive/negative effects on target population determining massage modality and anatomical location. Researchers will compare massage therapy to an attention control group, to see if massage therapy works to treat pain and anxiety in patients with cancer.

Establish variability in outcome measures.

Participants will:

Be randomized and receive either massage therapy or attention control over the course of three consecutive infusion therapy treatments. Each infusion therapy treatment occurs every 2-4 weeks.

Conditions

  • Gynecologic Cancer

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Massage Therapy

Gynecologic patient receiving an infusion will receive massage therapy for 15-20 minutes. The patient will have a choice of a hand, foot, or posterior neck and shoulder Swedish massage.

PROCEDURE

Attention Control

Massage therapist sits with gynecologic patient receiving an infusion asking questions for no more than 15 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massage Therapy Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Jill Cole

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jill S Cole, MA, LMT, BCTMB · University of Kentucky, Integrative Medicine and Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-01
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2026-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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