MOTIVACTION - Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer
• Interventions: Other: Stress-management training; Other: Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques)

• Registration Number: NCT01576107
• Lead Sponsor: German Cancer Research Center

Brief Summary

Impact of a 4-week exercise intervention vs. a stress-management-training on physical activity (measured objectively and by questionnaire) of cancer patients of different entities and out-patient regimes.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-04
• Study First Submitted: 2012-04-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-04-10
• Study First Posted: 2012-04-12
• Primary Completion: 2012-11
• Study Completion: 2013-05
• Status Verified: 2014-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-04-22
• Last Update Posted: 2014-04-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 76

Inclusion Criteria

• Physical activity < 150 minutes /week
• Patients are currently receiving outpatient treatment (acute or maintenance therapy) or finished this therapy not longer than six months ago

Exclusion Criteria

• Serious Orthopedic limitations
• Serious neurological disorders
• Serious cardiovascular diseases
• Bone metastases
• wound healing / scarring not completed
• Rehabilitation during the next eight weeks

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Stress-management	Stress-management training	Stress-management training
Physical activity	Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques)	Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Physical activity (accelerometer, Actigraph)	4 weeks	measured for 7 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
physical activity (Short QUestionnaire to ASsess Healthenhancing physical activity, SQUASH)	4 weeks, 3 months	Wendel-Vos, G.C.W. et al., 2003
Quality of life (EORTC QLQ C30)	4 weeks, 3 months	Aaronson, N. K. et al. (1993)
Barriers and barrier management in physical exercise	4 weeks, 3 months	adapted from Krämer\&Fuchs (2010), developed in pilot studies
variables of the Health Action Process Approach	4 weeks, 3 months	scales are developed according to the guidelines by the founder of the theory (Schwarzer, 2008)
Exercise experience	4 weeks, 3 Months	questionnaire adapted from Fuchs, R., 2009
Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale (SES6G)	4 weeks, 3 months	German version by Freud, T. (2011)

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

National Center for Tumor Diseases (German Cancer Research Center); 🇩🇪 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

National Center for Tumor Diseases; 🇩🇪 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany