Self-Administered Relaxing Acupressure to Reduce Fatigue in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. Determine the feasibility of implementing a randomized controlled trial of a six-week, self-administered relaxing acupressure intervention in AYA cancer survivors with clinically relevant CRF.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:

I. Explore participants’ perspectives of acceptability and satisfaction with the six-week acupressure interventions using semi-structured interviews.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:

I. Determine the preliminary efficacy of a six-week, virtual, self-administered relaxing acupressure intervention on clinically significant changes in CRF in post-treatment AYA cancer survivors.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM I: Patients receive access to an acupressure mobile application and an AcuWand on study and self-administer relaxing acupressure to 9 acupoints over 27 minutes once daily (QD) for 6 weeks.

ARM II: Patients receive access to an acupressure mobile application and an AcuWand and self-administer sham acupressure to non-acupressure point locations over 27 minutes QD for 6 weeks.

Enrollment was increased to 45.