Can a weighted blanket help with anxiety during cancer treatment?
Part of Cancer, Mental health clinical trials.
This study tests whether using a weighted blanket during intravenous cancer therapy (like chemo or immunotherapy) can reduce anxiety, stress, and depression, and increase comfort. It also checks if nurses find it easy to use.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older and newly diagnosed with cancer.
- You are getting your first round of intravenous chemotherapy or immunotherapy (or both) in a daycare unit.
- You weigh at least 55 kg (about 121 pounds) when you start.
- You can complete study questionnaires and speak either Arabic or English.
- You do not have a history of diabetes, breathing problems, claustrophobia (fear of tight spaces), numbness or tingling in hands/feet (peripheral neuropathy), fibromyalgia, or memory/thinking problems.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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