MOTIVACTION - Study

German Cancer Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques); Other: Stress-management training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01576107

NCT-PA8

Details and patient eligibility

About

Impact of a 4-week exercise intervention vs. a stress-management-training on physical activity (measured objectively and by questionnaire) of cancer patients of different entities and out-patient regimes.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physical activity < 150 minutes /week
• Patients are currently receiving outpatient treatment (acute or maintenance therapy) or finished this therapy not longer than six months ago

Exclusion criteria

• Serious Orthopedic limitations
• Serious neurological disorders
• Serious cardiovascular diseases
• Bone metastases
• wound healing / scarring not completed
• Rehabilitation during the next eight weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Physical activity

Experimental group

Description:

Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques)

Treatment:

Other: Exercise counseling (behavior change techniques)

Stress-management

Experimental group

Description:

Stress-management training

Treatment:

Other: Stress-management training