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Virtual nature exposure with hypnosis for hematology patients receiving cellular therapy

Effects of combining virtual nature exposure and hypnosis on quality of life in patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant: a randomized controlled trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN42049015
Enrollment
94
Registered
2025-11-06
Start date
2025-11-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-11-17

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Conditions

Psychological outcomes (quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptoms, pain, and fatigue) in patients with a hematological malignancy treated with hematopoietic cell transplantation Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

After providing informed consent, participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental group receiving the intervention or the control group. Allocation will be done following a permutate

Sponsors

Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Over 18 years old 2. Undergoing autologous or allogeneic HCT for a hematologic malignancy 3. Sufficiently fluent in French to fully understand the recorded hypnosis sessions

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Being treated with a HCT at home 2. Received HCT previously 3. Significant cognitive or psychiatric disorders impairing communication with others 4. Sensory impairments (deafness, blindness) that impact participation in the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Quality of life measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) questionnaire at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 months (T4: day +100 ±10 days) post-HCT.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Quality of life Social/Family subscale scores measured by the specific subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 months (T4: day +100 ±10 days) post-HCT. 2. Quality of life Emotional subscale scores measured by the specific subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) questionnaire at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 months (T4: day +100 ±10 days) post-HCT. 3. Quality of life Functional subscale scores measured by the specific subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) questionnaire at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 months (T4: day +100 ±10 days) post-HCT. 4. Quality of life Transplant-Specific subscale scores measured by the specific subscale of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Bone Marrow Transplantation (FACT-BMT) questionnaire at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 months (T4: day +100 ±10 days) post-HCT. 5. Anxiety and depressive symptoms measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at pre-transplant (T0: baseline), before the intervention (T1: day +7 ± 1 day post-transplant), after the intervention (T2: day +21 ± 1 day post-transplant), and at 1 month (T3: day +28 ± 2 days) and 3 month

Countries

Canada

Contacts

Public ContactValentyn Fournier
valentyn.fournier@umontreal.ca+1 (0)4387385583

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026