Evaluating the effectiveness of mindfulness alone compared to exercise and mindfulness on fatigue in women with gynaecology cancer (GEMS): Protocol for a randomised feasibility trial.

Autor: McCloy K; Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Hughes C; Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Dunwoody L; Psychology Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom., Marley J; Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Cleland I; School of Computing, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Cruciani F; School of Computing, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Saunders C; School of Computing, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom., Gracey J; Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Oct 26; Vol. 18 (10), pp. e0278252. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 26 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278252
Abstrakt: Background: In 2020 Globocan reported nearly 1.4 million new cases of gynaecology cancer worldwide. Cancer related fatigue has been identified as a symptom that can be present for gynaecology cancer patients many years after treatment. The current evidence around the management of this symptom suggests that exercise has the most positive outcome. However, some ambiguity remains around the evidence and whether it can address all areas of fatigue effectively. More recently, other interventions such as mindfulness have begun to show a favourable response to the management of symptoms for cancer patients. To date there has been little research that explores the feasibility of using both these interventions together in a gynaecology cancer population. This study aims to explore the feasibility of delivering an intervention that involves mindfulness and mindfulness and exercise and will explore the effect of this on fatigue, sleep, mood and quality of life.
Methods/design: This randomised control trial will assess the interventions outcomes using a pre and post design and will also include a qualitative process evaluation. Participants will be randomised into one of 2 groups. One group will undertake mindfulness only and the other group will complete exercise and mindfulness. Both groups will use a mobile application to complete these interventions over 8 weeks. The mobile app will be tailored to reflect the group the participants have drawn during randomisation. Self-reported questionnaire data will be assessed at baseline prior to commencing intervention and at post intervention. Feasibility will be assessed through recruitment, adherence, retention and attrition. Acceptability and participant perspective of participation (process evaluation), will be explored using focus groups.
Discussion: This trial will hope to evidence and demonstrate that combination of two interventions such as mindfulness and exercise will further improve outcomes of fatigue and wellbeing in gynaecology cancer. The results of this study will be used to assess (i) the feasibility to deliver this type of intervention to this population of cancer patients using a digital platform; (ii) assist this group of women diagnosed with cancer to manage fatigue and other symptoms of sleep, mood and impact their quality of life.
Trial Registration: NCT05561413.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 McCloy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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