Cancer Patient Perceptions of the Osteopathy Treatment: a Qualitative Study

For more than seven years an osteopath has been working in the palliative care unit (PCU) and in both palliative care mobile team (PCMT) as a member of the multidisciplinary team. The patients referred to the osteopath by the palliative care physicians present pains related to cancer, but also to the treatment, in particular to surgery or radiotherapy. The osteopath can help with other symptoms such as constipation or dyspnoea. As this approach is provided in complement of the medicinal approach, it is not considered as an alternative medicine but as a complementary medicine associated to a conventional care. It seemed relevant to the investigators to ask the cancer patients undergoing osteopathic sessions for pain how they saw this complementary therapy.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer Patients

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Médecine palliative - Groupement Hospitalier Lyon Sud- Hospices Civils de Lyon

Pierre-Bénite, 69495, France

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Advanced illness patients with cancer pain, PS 0 to 2, willing to take part in the study and having signed the informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

Non-communicating patients and patients whose cancer has been cured.
Patients with fractural risk.

Treatment and study plan

Ostheopathic treatment

Other

Once their clinical data were collected and their symptoms were assessed, all the enrolled patients had an osteopathic session a week during two weeks. After those sessions, they had an interview (scheduled between D11 and D14) with a psychologist

Primary outcomes

Thoughs and emotions of patients undergoing the two osteopathic sessions as complementary therapy for pain, evaluated using semi-directed interviews

Time frame: around day 14 (after the second session)

Once clinical data were collected and symptoms were assessed, all the enrolled patients had an osteopathic session a week during two weeks. After those sessions, they had an interview (scheduled between J11 and J14) with a psychologist. The research assistant psychologist conducted the semi-directed interviews. The interview questions were geared toward eliciting open-ended responses to acquire specific information about the patient thoughts and emotions associated with osteopathic treatment. In our study, we conducted two preliminary interviews to test the quality of the questions we planned to use with the participants. The specific questions that were used during the interview are available on request from the authors.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2014
Primary completion: 2014
Study completion: 2014
First posted: Dec 11, 2015
Registry last updated: May 28, 2019

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