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

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville15 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breast Cancer Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing Psychoterapy

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)

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

patients involvement

acceptability of the new psychotherapy

Time frame: week 12

Secondary Outcomes

adequacy of the intervention with the field

adaptability of the EMDR protocol

Time frame: Week 12

EMDR psychotherapy efficacy during the study, we will survey our population several times with differents questionnaires

ratio of patients which wants to participate and effectively participate