The Effectiveness of Tai-Chi in Cancer Patients Improves Fatigue, Mood, Sleep, Quality of Life and Heart Rate Variability
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer
Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

 
2019/05/01 Version1 
 
Title: Promoting the Application of Tai Chi to Improve the Fatigue in  
Cancer Patients 
Protocol ID:201900504B0 
NCT: not yet 
 
Study Protocol: 
The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of empirical 
application of Taichi in improving cancer-related fatigue and other 
outcome. This research adopts a kind of experimental research design, 
taking 78 cancer patients hospitalized by traditional Chinese medicine in 
a teaching area hospital in the Taiwan north as the object, and dividing 
the cases into two groups. The Taichi group was given routine care and 
Taijiquan, while the control group was given routine care. After obtaining 
consent before accepting the case, after the intervention measures started, 
the pre-test, the first week, the second week, the fourth to the eighth week 
Follow up and explore the effects of Tai Chi on fatigue, sleep quality, 
anxiety and depression, heart rate variability, quality of life after 
intervention. 
Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP): 
The researcher first checks the integrity of the data, codes the data, and 
then inputs it into the computer according to the code book. After creating 
the file, the data is analyzed using IBM SPSS 20.0 software. According to 
the research purpose and the nature of the variables, the following 
statistical methods are used to conduct descriptive statistical analysis and 
inferential statistical analysis. 1. Descriptive statistics include mean, 
standard deviation, frequency and percentage, and the chi-square test, 
Fisher`s exact test and independent t test are used to detect the 
homogeneity of the basic attributes and clinical disease characteristics of 
the two groups. sex. 2. Inferential statistics used Repeat Measure ANOVA 
to analyze the effect of Tai Chi health intervention time on fatigue, sleep 
quality, quality of life and heart rate variability. In this study, P <0.05 was 
considered as a statistically significant difference.