Preoperative Massage in Breast Surgery Patients

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Conditions studied: Anxiety, Presurgical Anxiety, Breast Cancer

In brief

This randomized controlled interventional study is designed to determine whether breast cancer surgical patients receiving presurgical massage therapy performed by a licensed massage therapist have decreased average anxiety levels compared to the control group of breast cancer surgical patients who do not receive massage therapy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01667328

Run by

Vassar Brothers Medical Center

People needed

299

Starts

2012-06-01

Expected to finish

2018-03-19

Last updated by the study team

2018-05-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or female
• Must speak English
• Able to give consent
• 18 years of age or older
• Undergoing first procedure outpatient breast/axillary surgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center

You may not qualify if…

• Anxiolytics or antidepressants medications during the previous 24 hours
• Any condition that would prohibit receiving a massage
• IV medications prior to presurgical holding VAS assessment

Where it is running

• Vassar Brothers Medical Center — Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

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