Educational Materials Development for Physical Activity in CAncer (EDuCA)

University of Verona

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Mixed Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Physical activity

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04213235

67002

Details and patient eligibility

About

In cancer setting, physical exercise has emerged as an important factor to control cancer-related symptoms and improve patients' quality of life. In addition, the correlation between physical activity and survival is recently consolidating. Nevertheless, several previous studies have shown that the majority of cancer patients are insufficiently active. Written information, for example a guidebook, may be a good oppurtunity, to improve lifestyle. Developing and testing an exercise guidebook, based on Theory of Planned Behavior and specifically designed for cancer patients, may be an effective tool to deliver information and increase physical activity level in this population.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• signed informed consent;
• confirmed cancer diagnosis.

Exclusion criteria

• sufficient physical activity level.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

Physical exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physical activity