Use of Medicinal Plants and Other Alternative and Complementary Medicines by Patients With Cancer in Reunion Island

Evaluation of the Use of Medicinal Plants and Other Alternative and Complementary Medicines by Patients With Cancer in Reunion Island

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04932681

Acronym

CAMUCRI

Enrollment

520

Registered

2021-06-21

Start date

2022-04-30

Completion date

2023-12-31

Last updated

2022-04-08

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Conditions

Cancer

Brief summary

Exploratory, observational and cross-sectional study with the aim of describing the use of plants for medicinal purposes (and other Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and identifying the determinants of this use. The methodology envisaged is mixed with an exploratory design combining qualitative (interviews) and quantitative techniques (questionnaires). To knowledge of investigators, no study has been carried out in Reunion Island on the use of plants and other alternative and complementary medicines among cancer patients.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Living in Reunion Island * Suffering from cancer (solid tumors, hematological malignancies) * Able to answer a questionnaire * Patient who does not oppose to the research

Exclusion criteria

* Person of legal age under guardianship or under legal protection * Persons who do not understand French or Reunionese Creole

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Use of herbal medicine	Day 1	Proportion of patients using herbal medicine (from the patient's perspective) among cancer patients.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Barriers of dialogue between patient and practionner	Day 1	Interviews between patient and interviewer will help to extract the barriers limiting patient/practitioner dialogue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine use from patient and practitioner perspectives
Need for Information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine	Day 1	Interviews between patient and interviewer will help to find out expectations about the need for information on Complementary and Alternative Medicine use from the patient's perspective and from the practitioner's perspective
Improving questionnaire after the practionners' focus group	Day 1	A practionners' focus group will be organised after the interviews to review the feedbacks and opinions on the questionnaire to improve the questionnaire for the quantitative part of the study

Countries

Reunion

Contacts

Primary ContactFlorent DRAPEAU, PharmD

florent.drapeau@chu-reunion.fr02 62 35 90 00

Backup ContactLaetitia BERLY

laetitia.berly@chu-reunion.fr02 62 90 62 86

Outcome results