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EMDR Psychotherapy to Treat Anxious-depressive Symptoms in Breast Cancer Patient

EMDR Psychotherapy of Anxious-depressive Symptoms for Women That Present an Invasive Beast Cancer : a Faisability Study

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03271476
Acronym
PSYCANCER
Enrollment
15
Registered
2017-09-05
Start date
2017-09-01
Completion date
2018-07-25
Last updated
2026-06-25

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Breast Cancer, Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing, Psychoterapy

Keywords

Breast Cancer, EMDR

Brief summary

The study will consist in an adjustment/adaptation of the "standard EMDR protocol" for cancer disease, and most particulary for women who present a breast cancer and during adjuvant therapy. It will also test the faisability of the research, with a view to adjust the calendar and the ressources to put at disposal for a randomized control trial that follow. This study will also allow to test the need and acceptibility of this new psychotherapy for the patient, and to identify facilitators and obstacles : participation/rejection ratio, inclusion rythm, adhesion of the medical staff about the project

Interventions

Visit 0 : patient inclusion (questionnaires and interview) Visit 1 : anamnesis Visit 2 : patient supporting Visit 3 : EMDR psychotherapy care Visit 4 : EMDR psychotherapy care Visit 5 : EMDR psychotherapy care and questionnaires Visit 6 : EMDR psychotherapy care Visit 7 : EMDR psychotherapy care Visit 8 : EMDR psychotherapy care ans questionnaires Visit 9 (one month after) : semi-directive interview and data recovery (questionnaires)

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville
Lead SponsorOTHER
University of Lorraine
CollaboratorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

All the women will receive the same intervention.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Being a woman aged of 18 years or more * Having a primary invasive breast cancer * Having undergo a mastectomy for a primary invasive breast cancer * Being able to complete the questionnaires * Being informed of the study and having signed the informed consent * Being affiliated to a welfare system

Exclusion criteria

* having contraindications to recieve EMDR psychotherapy (neurologic disorders, dissociatif states, oculomotor issues) * Having started adjuvant treatments following surgery * Having metastatic breast cancer * Presenting physical polypathologies * Having psychiatric antecedents (included anxiety and depressif disorders - assessed with M.I.N.I. (Sheehan and al., 1997)). * Having drug or alcohol addiction * Being placed under the safeguard of justice, guardianship or trusteeship * Being pregnant or breast-feeding

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
patients involvementweek 12acceptability of the new psychotherapy

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
adequacy of the intervention with the fieldWeek 12adaptability of the EMDR protocol
EMDR psychotherapy efficacy during the study, we will survey our population several times with differents questionnairesWeek 12ratio of patients which wants to participate and effectively participate

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORRafaele Longo, Dr

CHR Metz-Thionville

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Jun 26, 2026