Home_Based Digital Mindful Dance Program for Breast Cancer Cases

Trial Title: Home_Based Digital Mindful Dance Program for Breast Cancer Cases

NCT ID: NCT05938686

Condition: Breast Cancer
Quality of Life

Conditions: Official terms:
Breast Neoplasms

Conditions: Keywords:
breast cancer
mindfulness
dance
home based digitalization
quality of life

Study type: Interventional

Study phase: N/A

Overall status: Recruiting

Study design:

Allocation: Randomized

Intervention model: Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose: Other

Masking: None (Open Label)

Intervention:

Intervention type: Other
Intervention name: Home_Based Digital Mindful Dance Program
Description: Home_Based Digital Mindful Dance Program including warm up, dance and cool down for 60 minute with 12 weeks.
Arm group label: Interventional Group

Summary: During COVID-19, telecare replaces face-to-face contact to maintain social distance and reduce the spread of the virus. The current epidemic is coming to the end. However, for breast cancer cases, no matter in the treatment or survival stage, they face physical and mental symptoms, such as "social isolation", which affects their quality of life. Studies have shown that mindfulness and dance can help breast cancer cases improve depression and quality of life, but most of them are conducted face-to-face. Online mindful/dance helped breast cancer cases without the limitations of the time, space, distance, and treatment status, but lacking enough evidence. The purpose of this study will to design a "home based digital mindful dance program" suitable for our breast cancer cases, and conduct clinical trial on its feasibility, mind and body awareness, and quality of life. Finally, through in-depth interviews, we will understand the subjective experience of breast cancer cases on the program. The research results are expected to provide an empirical reference for multi-care for breast cancer to our country and abroad.

Detailed description: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic at the end of 2019, maintaining social distance has become an important strategy to avoid virus infection. Various interventional care intervention that traditionally need to be implemented face-to-face also urgently need to be adjusted to online with the assistance of digital technology tools. Provide (e.g. video clinic). Although the current epidemic situation has tended to stabilize, however, for breast cancer patients, they are often in a state of "social isolation" physically and mentally from the beginning of diagnosis and treatment to the survival stage after treatment. Because breast cancer patients often need to receive chemotherapy, they are affected by drugs and produce bone marrow suppression, resulting in lower autoimmune function than normal people. They belong to a high-risk group of infection, and they need to take self-protection measures and reduce going to public places. Even if all cancer treatments have been completed and are in the survival period, some patients may choose to leave the hard-working workplace early due to fear of cancer recurrence or social prejudice to reduce stress and health threats, but they are also worried about the burden on their families and loss of life. Center of gravity, when multiple psychological pressures continue to accumulate, it is easy to cause emotional distress such as anxiety or depression, and it also seriously affects interpersonal relationships and social skills. Therefore, whether it is in the treatment stage or the survival stage, the body and mind often suffer from a negative state like "social isolation" . Mindfulness is consciously aware of the present body, mind and environment, and maintains an objective, permissive, and non-judgmental attitude. Its exercises include breathing observation, body scanning, meditation, walking, yoga, and relaxation techniques. Dance is a dual-task activity that integrates cognitive, motor, and emotional tasks through a combination of spatial awareness, motor coordination, balance, endurance, and interaction. Past studies have pointed out that mindful dance measures through mindfulness techniques, dance movements, or a combination of the two can help breast cancer patients improve their quality of life, reduce depression, anxiety, pain, fatigue symptoms, improve sleep quality, and reduce the fear of cancer recurrence and many other benefits.

Criteria for eligibility:
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria: - breast cancer with any stage and any treatment status Exclusion Criteria: - mental illness

Gender: Female

Gender based: Yes

Gender description: more than 20 years old

Minimum age: 20 Years

Maximum age: N/A

Healthy volunteers: No

Locations:

Facility:
Name: National Yang-Ming University

Address:
City: Taipei
Zip: 11221
Country: Taiwan

Status: Recruiting

Contact:
Last name: IChing Hou, PhD

Phone: 886-2-28267000

Phone ext: 7315
Email: evita@ym.edu.tw

Investigator:
Last name: IChing Hou, PhD
Email: Principal Investigator

Start date: July 1, 2023

Completion date: December 30, 2024

Lead sponsor:
Agency: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Agency class: Other

Source: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Record processing date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 12, 2024

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov page: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05938686