Assessment of Adherence and Efficiency of a Home-based Training Program on Muscular Strength, Endurance and Qol for Colon Cancer Patients

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Colon Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Home-based training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02512263

HBTPCoCa

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose is to assess the adherence and the efficiency of a home-based training program on muscular strength, endurance and the quality of life, fatigue, physical activity, anxiety and depression for colon cancer patient treated by chemotherapy.

Full description

It's a 9-weeks experimentation with 4 moments (every 3 weeks) to do the tests.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Colon cancer patients treated by chemotherapy adjuvant

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have metastasis
• Patients hospitalized during the experimentation
• Patients who have major orthopedic or neurologic problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

They will have to do all the tests and to follow the home-based training program during 9 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: Home-based training program

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

They will have to do all the tests but not to follow the home-based training program.