A Brief SMART Exercise Instant Messaging Support Intervention - a Pilot Study

NCT05050370 | Unknown DMC

• 1 other identifier: UW20-019
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 16
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Cancer; Lung

Keywords

Lifestyle modification; physical activity; e-messages

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in fatigue level at 6 week

  measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Fatigue subscale, the higher scores, the more fatigue.

  Baseline and 6 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (12)

• Change in Anxiety and depressive symptoms at 6 weeks

  Baseline and 6 weeks

• Change in sleep quality 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 Pain at 6 weeks

  Baseline and 6 weeks

Study Arms (1)

Lifestyle-integrated exercise and care support

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of instant messages related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and cancer-related information with personalized support.

Behavioral: Brief messaging and personalized support

Interventions

Brief messaging and personalized support BEHAVIORAL

Patients will receive (i) a face-to-face group session and a package of instant messages related to lifestyle-integrated exercise (including breathing, balance, aerobic, strength, stretching exercises), cancer-related care information and support.

Lifestyle-integrated exercise and care support

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Aged 18 years and above;
• Diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer or small cell lung cancer
• Fatigue symptom score ≥4 out of 10
• Self-reported engagement of \<150 minutes of moderate-intensity PA each week
• Ambulatory and capable of all self-care activities
• Either undergoing or finished oncology therapy and/or support care
• Mentally, cognitively and physically fit to join the trial
• Able to speak and read Chinese;
• Willing to complete the patient-reported outcome questionnaire
• Completion of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire
• Possession of a smartphone with instant messaging functions such as WhatsApp or WeChat.

You may not qualify if:

• Those preparing for lung operation
• Skeletal fragility
• Serious active infection
• Inability to walk
• Severe respiratory insufficiency
• Uncontrolled pain
• Diagnosed psychiatric illness such as major depressive disorder

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The University of Hong Kong: lead

Study Sites (1)

Queen Mary Hospital

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

RECRUITING

Related Publications (2)

• Gopalakrishnan S, Takemoto L. Binding of actin to lens alpha crystallins. Curr Eye Res. 1992 Sep;11(9):929-33. doi: 10.3109/02713689209033490.

  PMID: 1424733 BACKGROUND

• Peddle-McIntyre CJ, Singh F, Thomas R, Newton RU, Galvao DA, Cavalheri V. Exercise training for advanced lung cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019 Feb 11;2(2):CD012685. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012685.pub2.

  PMID: 30741408 BACKGROUND

Related Links

• American Lung Association - Lung Cancer

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Agnes Lai, PhD

  The University of Hong Kong

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Agnes Lai, PhD

CONTACT

852-3917-6328; agneslai@hku.hk

Asa Choi, MA

CONTACT

852-3917-6563; asachoi@hku.hk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant professor

Model Details: The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of information on lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 23, 2021
• First Posted: September 20, 2021
• Study Start: February 4, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2021
• Study Completion: December 1, 2021
• Last Updated: September 20, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

HK (1)