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Effect of APA on Sleep Quality in Children With Cancer From 5 to 16 Years

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Blood Cancer
Adapted Physical Activity
Sleep
Child, Only
Interventions
Other: control arm
Behavioral: practice adapted physical activity
Registration Number
NCT06455592
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Brief Summary

Main objective :

Evaluate the effect of adapted physical activity on the sleep of children with cancer from 5 to 16

Hypothesis :

Practice daily adapted physical activity improve the sleep of the 5 to 16 children with cancer

Detailed Description

Medical process are leading to an increase in the survival of children/adolescents undergoing treatment for blood cancer. Caregivers need to focus on optimizing these patients' quality of life during and after the disease. Sleep is essential to their development. Sleep disorders are symptoms reported by patients. They have a negative impact on their quality of life. Adapted physical activity sessions are offered in pediatric oncology departments, but sedentary behavior persists. The hypothesis is that the daily practice of adapted physical activity will improve sleep in patients treated for blood cancer.

This is a randomized, cross-over, open-label, two-armed parallel, unique center therapeutic trial comparing the effect of practice adapted physical activity only once during four days (conventional strategy) versus practice adapted physical activity each day during four days (experimental strategy) on the sleep of the children with blood cancer from 5 to 16 at the hospital in Clermont-Ferrand and at home.

The study will last four weeks with a wash-out week after 2 weeks. The outcomes are described later. The nurse informs and obtains the consent of the child and his parents. After statistical analysis of these two arms, it will be possible to determine the value of practice daily adapted physical activity on the sleep of children with blood cancer from 5 to 16 at the hospital and at home.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
30
Inclusion Criteria
  • Children from 5 to 16 with haematological cancer undergoing treatment
  • Subjects and their parents who were informed about the study and gave informed consent.
  • Enrollment in the Social Security system
Exclusion Criteria
  • Children on high-dose corticosteroids
  • Children under anxiolytic treatment
  • Children with sleep disorders (sleep apnea)
  • Children taking melatonin or sleeping pills
  • Contraindication to adapted physical activity
  • Refusal to participate on the part of the participant or his/her parents
  • Holders of parental authority under curatorship, guardianship, safeguard of justice
  • Pregnant or breast-feeding teenagers

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
CROSSOVER
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
standardcontrol armpractice only once adapted physical activity in hospital and at home during four days
daily adapted physical activitypractice adapted physical activitypractice adapted physical activity daily in hospital and at home during four days
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Quality of sleepthe morning and the evening, from the morning of the first day to the morning of the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

daily calendar with information about child's sleep complete by parents

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
rate of daily human physical activity in met/dayfrom the morning of the first day to the morning of the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

wear a wearable device allday and night long

children quality of lifethe morning the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

parent-completed questionnaire

vigilance status descriptionat 10am, 2pm and 6pm from the first day to the third day and only at 10am the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

parent-completed questionnaire

children's pain self evaluationat 8am and 6pm from the first day to the third day and only at 8am the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

self evaluation of children's pain with the visial analog scale in vertical position quote from 0 to 10, 10=worst score

fatigue statusat 10am, 2pm and 6pm from the first day to the third day and only at 10am the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

parent-completed questionnaire

Number of sleep's hour and night awakeningsEach night from the bedtime to the wake up time, from the bedtime of the first day to the wake up time of the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

wear a sleep recorder during the night

chair stand-up testthe morning of the first day and the morning of the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

maximum sit-up and stand-up from a chair during one minute

inflammation markersthe morning, from the first and the fourth day, during the 2 sessions of 2 cycles, each cycle is 4 days

C reactive protein and IL6 from daily blood test

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

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