RATIONALE: Measuring how often hot flashes occur in postmenopausal women may be done by using a skin conduction device or by using a diary. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is comparing a skin conduction device with a hot flash diary as a way of measuring hot flashes in postmenopausal women with hot flashes.
OBJECTIVES: * Correlate hot flash frequency, as measured by an ambulatory sternal skin conductance measuring and recording tool, with patient-recorded hot flash frequency using a hot flash diary in postmenopausal women with hot flashes. * Determine the comfort, obtrusiveness, and feasibility of using the skin conductance recording tool for measuring hot flashes when worn daily for five weeks in these patients. OUTLINE: Patients wear an ambulatory sternal skin conductance hot flash device continuously for 5 weeks. Patients complete hot flash diaries once daily for 5 weeks. Patients also complete the Comfort, Bother, and Weight Questionnaire at the end of week 5. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 25 patients will be accrued for this study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
25
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Correlation of hot flash frequency, as measured by an ambulatory sternal skin conductance measuring and recording tool, with patient-recorded hot flash frequency using a hot flash diary
Comfort, obtrusiveness, and feasibility of using the skin conductance recording tool
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