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NCT00253708 · OUTCOME

Quality of Life: McGill Total

Massage Therapy in Treating the Symptoms of Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancer · Source last updated 2017-08-07

Results reported by the registry submitting party. Population, time horizon, units and missing values must be read together.

Measure
MEDIAN
Unit
units on a scale
Interval / dispersion
Inter-Quartile Range
Time frame
From baseline to 1 week and from baseline to 1 month

What was measured

Quality of Life (McGill Total); Mean of five sub-measures (but not overall) (0 = negative to 10 = positive)

Groups in this outcome

Massage

Patients received 3 massage therapy visits from massage therapists in initial week with a duration of 15-45 minutes.NOTE: Intervention 'management of therapy complications' has not been included in any Arm/Group Descriptions. Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment management of therapy complications massage therapy pain therapy psychosocial assessment and care quality-of-life assessment

No-touch Control

Patients received 3 no-touch therapy visits from massage therapists who provided no-touch without healing intention.Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment management of therapy complications massage therapy pain therapy psychosocial assessment and care quality-of-life assessment

Usual Care

Patients did not receive visits from massage therapists. Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment

Group identifiers and denominators belong to this outcome only. They may differ in another outcome or in safety reporting.

Analysis denominator · Participants

GroupSource count
Massage20
No-touch Control10
Usual Care9

Reported measurements

1 week
Values in units on a scale · Interval/dispersion: Inter-Quartile Range
GroupValueSpreadLowerUpperComment
Massage0.45Not reported01.23Not reported
No-touch Control0Not reported-0.660.28Not reported
Usual Care0Not reported-0.570Not reported
1 month
Values in units on a scale · Interval/dispersion: Inter-Quartile Range
GroupValueSpreadLowerUpperComment
Massage0Not reported-0.420.3Not reported
No-touch Control-0.18Not reported-1.290.13Not reported
Usual Care0Not reported00.58Not reported
Complete source fields
classes
  1. categories
    1. measurements
      1. group Id
        OG000
        lower Limit
        0
        upper Limit
        1.23
        value
        0.45
      2. group Id
        OG001
        lower Limit
        -0.66
        upper Limit
        0.28
        value
        0
      3. group Id
        OG002
        lower Limit
        -0.57
        upper Limit
        0
        value
        0
    title
    1 week
  2. categories
    1. measurements
      1. group Id
        OG000
        lower Limit
        -0.42
        upper Limit
        0.3
        value
        0
      2. group Id
        OG001
        lower Limit
        -1.29
        upper Limit
        0.13
        value
        -0.18
      3. group Id
        OG002
        lower Limit
        0
        upper Limit
        0.58
        value
        0
    title
    1 month
denoms
  1. counts
    1. group Id
      OG000
      value
      20
    2. group Id
      OG001
      value
      10
    3. group Id
      OG002
      value
      9
    units
    Participants
description
Quality of Life (McGill Total); Mean of five sub-measures (but not overall) (0 = negative to 10 = positive)
dispersion Type
Inter-Quartile Range
groups
  1. description
    Patients received 3 massage therapy visits from massage therapists in initial week with a duration of 15-45 minutes.NOTE: Intervention 'management of therapy complications' has not been included in any Arm/Group Descriptions. Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment management of therapy complications massage therapy pain therapy psychosocial assessment and care quality-of-life assessment
    id
    OG000
    title
    Massage
  2. description
    Patients received 3 no-touch therapy visits from massage therapists who provided no-touch without healing intention.Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment management of therapy complications massage therapy pain therapy psychosocial assessment and care quality-of-life assessment
    id
    OG001
    title
    No-touch Control
  3. description
    Patients did not receive visits from massage therapists. Patients were intended to receive pain therapy, psychosocial assessment and care, and quality-of-life assessment
    id
    OG002
    title
    Usual Care
param Type
MEDIAN
reporting Status
POSTED
time Frame
From baseline to 1 week and from baseline to 1 month
title
Quality of Life: McGill Total
type
SECONDARY
unit Of Measure
units on a scale

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