The Impact of Physical Exercise on Sleep in Colorectal Cancer Patients During Prehabilitation Period

NCT ID: NCT04270500

Last Updated: 2022-04-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-15

Study Completion Date

2022-12-31

Brief Summary

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Main objective: To evaluate the bidirectional relationships between physical exercise and sleep parameters, as a part of multimodal prehabilitation intervention, on pre- and postoperative outcomes in surgical patients with colorectal cancer, in an RCT.

Secondary objective: to determine whether the levels of anxiety and depression affect these relationships.

Objectives are based on the overarching hypothesis that is sleep and physical activity influence each other through complex, reciprocal interactions including multiple physiological and psychological pathways. To achieve this, providing a multimodal prehabilitation, specifically physical exercise, involved in mental and physical health through different mechanisms, i.e., improving physical functioning and fitness, reducing side effects of cancer treatments, preventing bone loss and weight gain, improving the quality of life and sleep, decreasing symptoms of fatigue and depression.

The present is a pilot study aiming to evaluate the bidirectional relationships between sleep and physical exercise, and the preliminary outcome has important implications for informing both clinical and public health practice.

Research question: Does a multimodal intervention including physical exercise improve sleep quality and duration compared to standard of care, during the perioperative period? Conversely, does a better sleep quality and duration increases the level of physical exercise during the perioperative period? How the level of anxiety and depression will affect these relationships? If the Prehabilitation program specifically physical exercise will positively affect sleep quality and duration after surgery, in the way to be a protective factor of sleep to not be reduced by up to 55% compared to those receiving standard of care?

Detailed Description

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Participants will be referred by colorectal surgery of the MUHC-Montreal General Hospital; 100 participants will be studied. Inclusion: adult patients aged 18 years and older, of either sex undergoing colorectal cancer surgery. All adult persons scheduled for resection of malignant colorectal lesions will be included. Exclusion criteria: a compromised health status (American Society of Anesthesiologists \[ASA\] class 4-5) or comorbid medical conditions interfering with the ability to perform an exercise. Patients are unable to understand the information given, insufficient understanding of English or French language to provide informed consent or who are considered unable to perform study-specific procedures. Patients that diagnosis of a sleep disorder other than insomnia (e.g., sleep-disordered breathing) or received psychotherapy specifically for insomnia, as well as a night-shift worker in the past 3 months or the next 18 months will be excluded.

Study Design: Randomized controlled trial of two parallel arms: prehabilitation program and standard of care (SOC). Informed consent forms will be signed and dated before the conduct of any study-specific procedures. After baseline assessment, participants will be random, by a computer program, allocated to either an intervention or a control group. Duration and follow-up. The intervention will last for 4 weeks pre- and 8 weeks post-surgery, for a total of 12 weeks. Site visits will occur weekly before surgery and every 4 weeks after surgery. In that period, weekly phone calls will reinforce compliance and provide tips to help patients adhere to the treatment protocol. A dedicated and specially trained research team lead by a physician, a kinesiologist, a nutritionist and a psychologist will perform the measurements and collect the demographic and surgical details of all the patients, recording daily detailed information of clinical outcomes up to 8 weeks after surgery.

Interventions: Common to both groups: as part of the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol as the standard of care in our institution. All participants will wear an actigraphy to objectively assess their daily physical activity and their sleep behavior. The following outcomes will be assessed for all participants, at the baseline and will be repeated after 4 weeks, before and after the surgery: sleep behaviors included sleep quality and duration, assessed subjectively and objectively. Self-reported and objective outcome measurements will be assessed from all participants such as the 6-minute walk distance (6MWD), daily activity counts, exercise tolerance (CPET) and handgrip strength, Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Chronotype, health-related quality of life assessed by using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) used to assess emotional distress.

Conditions

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Colo-rectal Cancer Surgery

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This is a randomized controlled pilot trial of patients with colorectal cancer scheduled for major abdominal surgery. The prehabilitation intervention group will be compared with the usual care for an average of 4 weeks before planned surgery. All participants will wear an actigraphy to objectively assess their daily physical activity and their sleep behavior.

The intervention will last for 4 weeks pre- and 8 weeks post-surgery, for a total of 12 weeks. Site visits will occur weekly before surgery and every 4 weeks after surgery. In that period, weekly phone calls will reinforce compliance and provide tips to help patients adhere to the treatment protocol. A dedicated and specially trained research team lead by a physician, a kinesiologist, a nutritionist and a psychologist will perform the measurements and collect the demographic and surgical details of all the patients, recording daily detailed information of clinical outcomes up to 8 weeks after surgery.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Prehabilitation program

The preoperative period (prehabilitation) represents a more appropriate time than the postoperative period to implement an intervention. Prehabilitation is a process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity before the scheduled surgery, aimed at improving the patient's tolerance to upcoming physiologic stress, by three principal elements: exercise training, nutritional intervention, and psychological support.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Prehabilitation program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The preoperative period (prehabilitation) represents a more appropriate time than the postoperative period to implement an intervention. Prehabilitation is a process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity before the scheduled surgery, aimed at improving the patient's tolerance to upcoming physiologic stress, by three principal elements: exercise training, nutritional intervention, and psychological support.

Standard of care (SOC)

Common to both groups as part of the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol as the standard of care in our institution.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Prehabilitation program

The preoperative period (prehabilitation) represents a more appropriate time than the postoperative period to implement an intervention. Prehabilitation is a process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity before the scheduled surgery, aimed at improving the patient's tolerance to upcoming physiologic stress, by three principal elements: exercise training, nutritional intervention, and psychological support.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All adult persons scheduled for resection of malignant colorectal lesions will be included

Exclusion Criteria

* A compromised health status (American Society of Anesthesiologists \[ASA\] class 4-5) or comorbid medical conditions interfering with the ability to perform an exercise.
* Patients are unable to understand the information given, insufficient understanding of English or French language to provide informed consent or who are considered unable to perform study-specific procedures.
* Patients that diagnosis of a sleep disorder other than insomnia (e.g., sleep-disordered breathing) or received psychotherapy specifically for insomnia, as well as a night-shift worker in the past 3 months or the next 18 months will be excluded
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Montreal General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sender Liberman MD

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sender Liberman, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Franco Carli, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Locations

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McGill University Health Centre

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Canada

Central Contacts

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Sarah Atoui, MSc

Role: CONTACT

514-934-1934 ext. 43728

Facility Contacts

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Sarah Atoui, MSc

Role: primary

514-934-1934 ext. 43728

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Meyerhardt JA, Giovannucci EL, Holmes MD, Chan AT, Chan JA, Colditz GA, Fuchs CS. Physical activity and survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Aug 1;24(22):3527-34. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.0855. Epub 2006 Jul 5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Albrecht TA, Taylor AG. Physical activity in patients with advanced-stage cancer: a systematic review of the literature. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2012 Jun 1;16(3):293-300. doi: 10.1188/12.CJON.293-300.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Other Identifiers

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PA-Sleep

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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