The breast cancer survivors healthy lifestyle study: A randomised controlled trial to test the effects of information and advice on increasing healthy lifestyle behaviour change in breast cancer survivors
- Conditions
- Breast CancerCancer - Breast
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12609000027213
- Lead Sponsor
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 111
Diagnosis of breast cancer (Stage I – IIIa including Ductal carcinoma in situ);
completion of primary treatment (surgery radiation and or chemotherapy) within past one to twelve months
Health status - assessed by self and /or medical oncologist as eligible to participate
Known contraindications for exercise (assessed by patient)
Physical/Psychiatric impairments that would impair mobility
Women already meeting exercise guidelines (defined for this study as greater than 150 minutes per week {Australian Government, Accessed March 2008 #225}
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Physical Activity: Self reported minutes of moderate to strenuous physical activity per week[Baseline, twelve weeks, twelve months]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Mood: Beck Depression Inventory[Baseline, 12 weeks, 12 months];Quality of life - FACT- B[Baseline, 12 weeks and 12 months];Quality of Life FACT-B[Baseline, twelve weeks, twelve months]