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NCT Number: NCT04606121

The Benefit of Enhanced Day Care of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Retrospective Study of Medical Records

We collected medical records since June 2017 to November 2019., used pair-T test for questionnaire of CTCAE, BFT-I, WHOQOL to evaluate the benefit of enhanced day care of TCM for cancer patients.

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Key information

Conditions

Chemotherapy-Induced Change

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Taipei city hospital

Taipei, 10845, Taiwan

About this study

using TCM method as Complementary and Alternative Medicine is worldwide. we collected medical records that using TCM methods for adverse event from cancer therapies. we used CTCAE BFI-T and WHOQOF-BREF to evaluate the benefit.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • The medical records since June 2017 to December 2019 needed to meet the following criterial: (1)age>20 years old, (2)diagnosis meet ICD10:C00.0-C97 (3) needed to do Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE), scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T) and scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF), and those scales needed to be done pretest when patient came to the clinics and posttest when case end.

Exclusion criteria

  • The subjects will be excluded if they do not complete pretest and posttest of the following scales:(1) Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE, (2) BFI-T scale (3) WHOQOL-BREF scale

Treatment and study plan

enhanced day care of TCM include acupuncture, massage, tai ji quan, TCM herbal medicine

Combination Product

acupuncture twice in enhanced day care of TCM massage twice in enhanced day care of TCM tai ji quan one time in enhanced day care of TCM TCM herbal powder three times a day

Primary outcomes

  1. scale of Taiwan brief version of Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version4.0(Taiwan brief version scale of CTCAE)

    Time frame: 2020

    for chemotherapy related adverse effects in Taiwan

Secondary outcomes

  1. scale of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory(BFI-T)

    Time frame: 2020

    evaluate the level of fatique

  2. scale of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF(WHOQOL-BREF)

    Time frame: 2020

    evaluate QOL

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Taipei City Hospital

Other Gov

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Oct 28, 2020
Registry last updated
Oct 28, 2020

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