APPROACH: a mobile phone app to encourage increased health & wellbeing after cancer
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN14149329
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity College London
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 472
Note, points 1 and 2 are checked by the clinical care team in the initial medical record eligibility screening.
1. Diagnosed with breast, prostate or colorectal cancer within the last 2 and a half years at a participating hospital site
2. Aged 16 years or older
3. Own a smartphone (that uses Android or iOS (Apple) operating systems)
4. Willing and able to provide informed consent
5. Has access to a computer or tablet and an email address, and is willing to complete online questionnaires.
6. Willing to wear an accelerometer for a week at the assessment points
Note, points 1a, 4, 5, 6 and 13 are checked by the clinical care team in the initial medical record eligibility screening.
1. Patients who are more than 2 years post-diagnosis at the point of screening by hospital staff. Due to the potential time gap between screening/inviting participants and then consenting we will exclude patients who are more than 2 and a half years post-diagnosis at consent.
2. Unable to understand spoken/written English
3. ECOG status > 3
4. Diagnosed cognitive impairment (e.g. dementia)
5. Cognitive and/or physical impairment that prevents participation in brisk walking
6. Those who have a current diagnosis of metastatic disease
7. Due to have surgery to remove cancer in the next 5 months
8. < 6 weeks after surgery to remove cancer at consent
9. Reports achieving 150 minutes of at least moderate intensity PA weekly [80]
10. Report previous/current use of the study app app
11. Current participation in a health behaviour change study
12. Live with someone already participating in the trial
13. Incarcerated (i.e. address is a prison)
14. Already participated in the APPROACH pilot study (only applies at the pilot hospital site)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Daily average minutes of brisk walking (=100 steps per minute) measured using an objective measure (an activPAL accelerometer), worn for 7 days at baseline, 3 and 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method