Delivering an individualised web-based exercise intervention to support individuals with metastatic prostate cancer: A pilot randomised control trial
- Conditions
- Metastatic Prostate CancerCancer - Prostate
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12618001979246
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Adelaide
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 66
To be eligible, participants must be living with metastatic prostate cancer. They need to have access to a computer with the internet and be able to read and write in English. Lastly, they need to have consent from their physician with a note from their physician detailing the extent and location of metastases.
Patients will be ineligible if they have any contraindications to performing moderate physical activity (resistance, aerobic and flexibility) for at least 20 minutes, up to two days of the week. This includes no recent serious cardiovascular events (within 12?months, including but not limited to, unstable bone metastases, spinal compressions, transient ischaemic attack, cerebrovascular accident or myocardial infarction), acute pulmonary embolus or infarction, acute myocarditis or pericarditis, aneurysm or an acute infection. Participants will also be excluded from the study if they are already participating in two sessions of resistance-training and 60 minutes of structured moderate-vigorous aerobic exercise per week (participants meeting one target but not the other will be eligible).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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