Prehabilitation to Patients With Prostate Cancer (PREPP)

Odense University Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Prostate Cancer (Diagnosis)

Treatments: Behavioral: Prehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07162987

25/31257

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this feasibility study is to test a newly developed, multicomponent prehabilitation intervention to patients with prostate cancer, to improve their resilience to treatment side-effects. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Are patients and their close relatives willing to take part in prehabilitation?
• What is the acceptability and feasibility of the prehabilitation intervention, seen from the perspectives of patients, their close relatives, and healthcare professionals?
• Are the planned data collection methods feasible, and are there indications of a clinical effect?

Participants will:

• Take part in 12 weeks of physical exercise training
• Attend a 4-day residential prehabilitation intervention, where they receive education and do exercises. After 12 weeks, it is possible to take part in a voluntary follow-up session.
• Patients will respond to questionnaires about their health, symptoms, and quality of life. Patients and their close relatives will attend a group interview. Patients will also complete an exercise diary and brief physical tests

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with prostate cancer
• min 18 years old
• Treatment: Androgen deprivation therapy and raditation therapy
• Resident in Vejle Municipality or Esbjerg Municipality
• Can take part in residential prehabiliation in week 43 or 50, 2025, as well as physical exsercise training in the municipality
• Willing to take part in a research study
• Suited to take part in group sessions
• Be able to read and be understood in Danish
• Be responsible for own personal hygiene and medications at the 4-day residential stay

Exclusion criteria

• Persons who do not fulfil the inclusion criteria will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Patients receiving prehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

The prehabilitation intervention includes: - Education about the disease and treatment - Physical exsercise training - Values in life - Energy preservation - Nutrition with a focus on hormone therapy - Identiy and role changes - Intimacy and sexuality - Sleep - Pelvic floor training - An individual session with a healthcare professional incl. goal setting

Treatment:

Behavioral: Prehabilitation