Massage, Oncology, Pain, Anxiety, Feasibility
The Impact of Massage Therapy on Pain and Anxiety of Patients With Gynecologic Cancer While Receiving Infusion Treatment (IMPACT)
Who can join
Ages 18 to 85 · Women
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with gynecologic cancer receiving active treatment of infusion, including but not limited to chemotherapy, immunotherapy, antibiotics, and blood. * Patients with gynecological cancer undergoing an infusion for the first time. Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with gynecologic cancer that has received infusion therapy anytime within the past 2 years.
About the study
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the feasibility of studying massage therapy in patients with gynecologic cancers while receiving infusion treatments. The central hypothesis is that it is feasible to implement a massage intervention study in an infusion center at an academic hospital, and measure pain and anxiety in patients with gynecological cancer. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Can investigators evaluate feasibility to conduct a study from a design standpoint? Can investigators assess the use of randomization, blinding of assessors, potential to control the study with an attention group, and recruitment/retention processes? Can investigators successfully collect outcome measures of pain and anxiety, pre/post intervention? Researchers will investigate degree of resources needed, such as massage therapists, assessors, and timing of delivery intervention. Assess positive/negative effects on target population determining massage modality and anatomical location. Researchers will compare massage therapy to an attention control group, to see if massage therapy works to treat pain and anxiety in patients with cancer.
Establish variability in outcome measures.
Participants will:
Be randomized and receive either massage therapy or attention control over the course of three consecutive infusion therapy treatments. Each infusion therapy treatment occurs every 2-4 weeks.
What is being tested
- Massage Therapy (procedure)
- Attention Control (procedure)
Sponsor: Jill Cole · Participants: 24 · Started: Sep 3, 2026
Contact the study team
- Jill S Cole, MA, LMT, BCMTB · Phone: 859-323-7087
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07502157
Locations in the U.S.
| Kentucky | University of Kentucky, Lexington |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.