EMDR Treatment of Conditioned Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Survivors

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age16+
SponsorUniversity Medical Center Groningen

About this trial

To explore the effectiveness of EMDR therapy treatment in reducing symptoms of chemotherapy-induced conditioned nausea and vomiting in (former) patients with cancer.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Previously pathologically confirmed diagnosis of cancer

Previously treated with systemic cancer therapy

Persistent complaints (more than 2 months) of conditioned nausea and/or vomiting

Able to understand spoken and written Dutch

Disqualifiers

Ongoing psychiatric treatment

EMDR therapy contraindications (dissociative disorders, personality disorders or severe somatic disorders (e.g. cardiac arrhythmias))

Complex type 2 trauma

Known with recent conditions / non-anti-cancer medication which can elicit nausea (e.g. pregnancy or alcohol abuses)

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • EMDR therapy

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group