Improving Health-Promoting Behaviors in Adolescent Cancer Survivors Using AWAKE: A Feasibility Trial
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Health Behavior
- Sponsor
- Emory University
- Enrollment
- 92
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in the he Children's Hope Scale score
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE) focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors in survivors of young adult cancer. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform into an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of the AWAKE platform in this population.
Detailed Description
A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE) focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors in survivors of young adult cancer. Adaptation of this intervention to incorporate messaging for adolescents and their guardians has the potential to have a long-term impact on adolescent cancer survivors. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform into an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of the AWAKE platform in this population.
Investigators
Karen Effinger
Assistant Professor
Emory University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adolescent survivors:
- •Early survivor: 3 months to 2 years after therapy completion
- •Long-term survivor: ≥2 years after therapy completion
- •13-17 years of age
- •Access to tablet or smartphone and internet
- •One designated guardian per survivor
Exclusion Criteria
- •Cognitive delay that would preclude participation
- •Participant or designated guardian unable to read English
- •Active disease relapse
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in the he Children's Hope Scale score
Time Frame: Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits
A 6-item self-report questionnaire assessing children's dispositional hope. Two components, agency (ability to initiate and sustain action towards goals) and pathways (capacity to find a means to carry out goals), are assessed by the measure. Responses are on a 6-point Likert-scale ranging from 1=none of the time to 6=all of the time with higher scores representing increased dispositional hope.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in number of servings of fruits and vegetables(Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits)
- Change in number of physical activity hours per day(Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits)
- Change in the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL), 4.0 scale score(Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits)
- Change in number of screen time hours per day(Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits)
- Change in PROMIS score(Baseline, 2 and 4 months follow up visits)
- Usability of AWAKE(2 month assessment)
- Satisfaction with AWAKE(2 month assessment)