Feasibility of a Smart Device Application for Home-based Prehabilitation

• Conditions: Prehabilitation; Cancer

• Registration Number: NCT05363150
• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital

Brief Summary

To investigate the feasibility of a home-based exercise training program using a smartphone application in patients planning for cancer surgery, and to determine the effectiveness of this application on functional capacity.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-03
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-06
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-11
• Study Start: 2022-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-09-01
• Study Completion: 2022-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patients (19-70) who are scheduled for elective cancer surgery
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification I or II
• Patients who can use a smartphone application
• Patients who can perform an exercise program for at least 3 weeks from the first visit to the preoperative clinic to elective surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who are unable to communicate
• Patients under the age of 19 and over 70
• Patients who have a major medical or psychiatric disorder that is expected to affect exercise
• Patients with contraindications to the general rehabilitation program

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Compliance of a smartphone application	A day before surgery at ward	Based on the data saved in the application, when the program started and ended, how many steps and distance the patient exercised per day, how many sets patient did muscle exercise per day and week will be collected to calculate the compliance.
Satisfaction of a smartphone application	A day before surgery at ward	Using the questionnaire that we made to evaluation the satisfaction of a smartphone application.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
6-minute walk test	4 weeks before the surgery at clinic, a day before the surgery at ward	The distance that patient can walk during 6 minutes.
Korean-EORTC QLQ C-30	4 weeks before the surgery at clinic, a day before the surgery at ward	EORTC QLQ C-30: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaires Core-30; A questionnaire which is designed to assess the different aspects that define the QoL of cancer patients. (Total score ranging 0 to 100, A high score for a functional scale represents a high level of functioning)