Breast Cancer, Menopause
Conditions
Brief summary
Women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors are often bothered by menopausal symptoms to a special degree. Treatment options for those symptoms are currently limited as hormone replacement therapy is often prohibited. Yoga has been shown to reduce menopausal symptoms as well as symptoms associated with breast cancer. Therefore, this study aims to investigate whether a 12-week yoga intervention can reduce menopausal symptoms in women with breast cancer and breast cancer survivors.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALYoga
OTHERUsual care
Sponsors
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
30 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Breast cancer (Stage I-III) * After completion of surgical therapy * After completion of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy * Score of 5 or greater on the Menopausal Rating Scale * Physical and cognitive capacity to participate in the yoga intervention * Willingness to participate in 10 or more of the 12 yoga interventions * signed informed consent
Exclusion criteria
* Regular yoga practice in the past 12 months * Planned surgery in the study period * Diagnosed and medically treated psychosis * Hormone replacement therapy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Menopausal symptoms | Week 12 | Menopause Rating Scale |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fatigue | Week 12 | Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Fatigue |
| Anxiety | Week 12 | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale |
| Depression | Week 12 | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale |
| Menopausal symptoms | Week 24 | Menopause Rating Scale |
| Adverse events | Week 12 | — |
| Health-related quality of life (disease-specific) | Week 12 | Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-esteem | Week 12 | Self-esteem scale |
| Adherence | Week 12 | Course adherence and daily home practice |
| Body awareness | Week 12 | Body Awareness Questionnaire |
| Appraisal of body | Week 12 | Fragebogen zur Beurteilung des Körpers (Questionnaire for the assessment of body) |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed