Frass M, 2015              Health status and well being cancer patients

The Medical University of Vienna was the setting for this randomised, controlled work that looked at whether homeopathy has the capacity to influence global health status and subjective wellbeing, when used as an adjunct to conventional cancer therapy.

410 people diagnosed with cancer were treated either with standard anti-neoplastic or individualised homeopathic adjunctive therapy in addition to standard therapy. The main outcome measures were global health status and subjective wellbeing, as assessed by the patients. At each of three visits (one baseline, two follow-up visits), patients filled in two different questionnaires.

The improvement of global health status between visits 1 and 3 was significantly stronger in the homeopathy group (p=0.005) when compared with the control group.

A significant group difference was also observed with respect to subjective wellbeing by (p<0.001) in favour of the homeopathic as compared with the control group.

Control patients showed a significant improvement only in subjective wellbeing between their first and third visits.

For a better understanding Global health status is generally this;

 quality of life and perceived health mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain, anxiety/depression general health perception, physical & mental functioning