A Brief SMART Exercise With Chat-based Instant Messaging Personalised Support Intervention
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Enrollment
- 16
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in fatigue level at 6 week
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancer diseases, globally and locally. Several health benefits of increased physical activity (PA) have been reported for people with cancer. PA plays a critical role across the cancer trajectory, from prevention through to post-diagnosis and has been proposed as an alternative for improving physical and psychosocial health outcomes, reducing cancer recurrence, and cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Hence, the investigators propose to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise into daily activities of patients with lung cancer. The aims are to explore the feasibility of using instant messaging to enhance physical activity and improve their fatigue, emotion and quality of life, and obtain feedback from patients for intervention and study design improvement.
Detailed Description
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancer, globally and locally. Patients with lung cancer are in a uniquely challenging situation in their disease, comorbidities, and treatment that may lead to worsened symptoms and many negative health consequences, including fatigue, irritability, and impaired daytime functioning. Physical activity (PA) is defined as 'any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure'. Several health benefits of increased PA have been reported for people with cancer. PA plays a critical role across the cancer trajectory, from prevention through to postdiagnosis and has been proposed as an alternative for improving physical and psychosocial health outcomes, reducing cancer recurrence, and cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Most clinicians underutilise exercise therapy, regardless of its low-cost way to improve symptoms and potential health outcomes. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Low motivation, fear to exercise, lack of knowledge about benefits are the most common barriers of engaging in physical activity for cancer patients. Hence, the current proposal is to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise (light to moderate physical activity) into daily activities of patients with lung cancer. The aims are to explore the feasibility of using instant messaging to enhance physical activity and improve their fatigue, emotion and quality of life, and obtain feedback from patients for intervention and study design improvement.
Investigators
Dr. Agnes Yuen-Kwan Lai
Assistant professor
The University of Hong Kong
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in fatigue level at 6 week
Time Frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Fatigue subscale, the higher scores, the more fatigue.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Pain at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in flexibility at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in sleep quality at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in sleep quality with objective measurement at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in hand grip strength at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in Anxiety and depressive symptoms at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in Health-related quality of life at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in Subjective Happiness at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in balance at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in physical activity level with objective measurement at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in dyspnea at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)
- Change in activity level at 6 weeks(Baseline and 6 weeks)