Improving Health-Promoting Behaviors in Adolescent Cancer Survivors Using AWAKE: A Feasibility Trial (CHOA AWAKE)

Emory University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: AWAKE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03564587

IRB00099050

Details and patient eligibility

About

A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE) focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors in survivors of young adult cancer. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform into an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of the AWAKE platform in this population.

Full description

A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE) focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors in survivors of young adult cancer. Adaptation of this intervention to incorporate messaging for adolescents and their guardians has the potential to have a long-term impact on adolescent cancer survivors. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform into an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of the AWAKE platform in this population.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adolescent survivors:

• Early survivor: 3 months to 2 years after therapy completion
• Long-term survivor: ≥2 years after therapy completion
• 13-17 years of age
• Access to tablet or smartphone and internet

One designated guardian per survivor

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive delay that would preclude participation
• Participant or designated guardian unable to read English
• Active disease relapse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

AWAKE

Experimental group

Description:

The AWAKE intervention is an 8 week program including a mobile app and phone-based coaching, focused on improving hope in order to increase quality of life and health-promoting behaviors in young adult cancer survivors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AWAKE

No treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

Control participants will receive the surveys to complete only; however, they may opt to receive the intervention after the 4-month assessment.