RATIONALE: Yoga may improve symptoms and quality of life and reduce stress in patients with ovarian cancer or breast cancer and may help them live more comfortably. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well yoga works in controlling symptoms and reducing stress in women with ovarian cancer or breast cancer.
OBJECTIVES: * Determine the feasibility of implementing a restorative yoga intervention as a complementary supportive therapy for women with ovarian or breast cancer. * Measure changes in fatigue, psychosocial distress (anxiety, depression), psychological well-being (positive emotions), and overall quality of life from baseline to completion of the study treatment. OUTLINE: This is a pilot study. Patients undergo a 75-minute restorative yoga session once a week for 10 weeks. Patients complete questionnaires regarding fatigue, psychological distress (anxiety, depression), positive affect, and quality of life at baseline, immediately after the final yoga session, and then at 2 months after the final yoga session.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
106
10 week yoga class
Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Fatigue as measured by the FACT-Fatigue subscale
Time frame: 18 weeks
Psychological distress as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
Time frame: 18 weeks
Positive affect as measured by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
Time frame: 18 weeks
Quality of life as measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-O) for patients with ovarian cancer or FACT-B for patients with breast cancer
Time frame: 18 weeks
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