Evaluation of intervention strategies to manage fatigue during active treatment and to prevent persistent fatigue after curative treatment for cancer.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Patients diagnosed with cancer and who will start treatment with curative intentions. (specified by inclusion criteria)
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients just have been diagnosed for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, cervix cancer, uterus cancer, testis cancer, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin disease;
2. Patients in preparation of receiving therapy with curative intention (chemotherapy, radiotherapy and/or surgery);
Exclusion Criteria
N/A
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fatigue severity will be measured using the Checklist Individual Strength (Vercoulen et al., 1994; Vercoulen et al., 1999). The Checklist Individual Strength is a 20-item questionnaire, designed to measure four aspects of fatigue over the last 14 days, namely: fatigue severity (8 items), concentration (5 items), motivation (4 items) and physical activity (3 items). Each item is scored on a 7-point Likert scale. High scores indicate a high level of fatigue, a high level of concentration problems, low motivation and a low level of activity. Psychometric properties are excellent. A score of 35 or higher on the subscale fatigue severity indicates severe feelings of fatigue. Norm scores of different patients groups and healthy controls are available (Vercoulen et al., 1999, Servaes et al., 2002).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method