The Effect of Clown Intervention on Self-Report and Biomarker Measures of Stress and Fatigue in Pediatric Osteosarcoma Inpatients: A Pilot Study.

Luis Carlos Lopes-JuniorGabriela Pereira-da-SilvaDenise S C SilveiraLuciana C VeronezJéssica C SantosJonas B AlonsoRegina A G Lima

Published in: Integrative cancer therapies (2018)

The results of this pilot study suggest that it is feasible longitudinally measure psychophysiological outcomes in the pediatric osteosarcoma inpatients for chemotherapy. Clown intervention merits further study as a way to reduce stress as well as fatigue, since that the stress and cytokines measurements are feasible based on our work.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
stress induced
sleep quality
squamous cell carcinoma
radiation therapy
skeletal muscle
weight loss
depressive symptoms
glycemic control