Lifestyle Modification Program for Lung Cancer Patients - A Pilot Study
NCT ID: NCT04105647
Last Updated: 2020-04-28
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
32 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-10-01
2021-05-30
Brief Summary
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Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Hence, the investigators propose to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise into daily activities of patients with lung cancer. The aims are to increase patients' physical activity and improve their fatigue, emotion and quality of life, compared to the control group.
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Detailed Description
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Physical activity (PA) is defined as 'any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure'. Several health benefits of increased PA have been reported for people with cancer. PA plays a critical role across the cancer trajectory, from prevention through to post-diagnosis and has been proposed as an alternative for improving physical and psychosocial health outcomes, reducing cancer recurrence, and cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Most clinicians underutilise exercise therapy, regardless of its low-cost way to improve symptoms and potential health outcomes. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Low motivation, fear to exercise, lack of knowledge about benefits are the most common barriers of engaging in physical activity for cancer patients.
Hence, the current proposal is to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise (light to moderate physical activity) into daily activities of patients with lung cancer.
The investigators hypothesised that patients in the experimental group would display significantly higher increases in physical activity and improvements in fatigue, emotion and quality of life, compared to the control group.
The objectives are to examine the short-term clinical effects on impacts on fatigue, emotion and quality of life in patients with lung cancer, and to evaluate the feasibility of a brief lifestyle-integrated exercise program to increase physical activity by a pilot study with objective fitness and subjective questionnaire assessment, and focus group interviews.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of information on lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Experimental group
Patients in the experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of healthy lifestyle instant messages, including lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
Lifestyle-integrated exercise
The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of instant messages related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity. The lifestyle-integrated exercise is modified from Zero-time exercise. It focuses on four exercise domains that patients with lung cancer could be done at home, including breathing, balance, aerobic, strength, stretching exercises
Control group
The control group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of healthy lifestyle instant messages, but not related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
Healthy living information
The control group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package healthy living instant messages, but not related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
Interventions
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Lifestyle-integrated exercise
The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of instant messages related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity. The lifestyle-integrated exercise is modified from Zero-time exercise. It focuses on four exercise domains that patients with lung cancer could be done at home, including breathing, balance, aerobic, strength, stretching exercises
Healthy living information
The control group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package healthy living instant messages, but not related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Diagnosis with non-small cell lung cancer
* General condition stable, either is undergoing or finished treatment
* Able to speak and read Chinese
* Able to complete the self-administered questionnaire
* Able to use instant messages such as WhatsApp or WeChat
* Mental, cognitive and physically fit determined by the clinicians/investigators
* Signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
* Skeletal fragility
* Serious active infection
* Inability to walk
* Previously untreated symptomatic brain metastases
* Severe respiratory insufficiency
* Uncontrolled pain
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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The University of Hong Kong
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Dr. Agnes Yuen-Kwan Lai
Assistant Professor
Principal Investigators
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Agnes Lai
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
The University of Hong Kong
Locations
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Agnes
Hong Kong, , Hong Kong
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong, , Hong Kong
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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References
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Caspersen CJ, Powell KE, Christenson GM. Physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness: definitions and distinctions for health-related research. Public Health Rep. 1985 Mar-Apr;100(2):126-31.
Peddle-McIntyre CJ, Singh F, Thomas R, Newton RU, Galvao DA, Cavalheri V. Exercise training for advanced lung cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019 Feb 11;2(2):CD012685. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012685.pub2.
Related Links
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American Lung Association - Lung Cancer
Other Identifiers
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UW19-597-2
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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