Program of Exercise, Diet and Control of Psychological Stress in Cancer Survivors (EDICOS)

Grupo de Investigación en Actividad Física y Salud

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Survivors

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise + Diet counseling + psycho-emotional support; Behavioral: Exercise + Diet counseling; Behavioral: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01108484

GIAFYS-2010-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

A program of exercise, diet and psycho-emotional support could improve some outcomes in cancer survivors.

Full description

Cancer survivors will be randomised to one of the following groups: a) Supervised physical activity, b) Supervised physical activity + Diet counseling, c) Supervised physical activity + Diet counseling + psycho-emotional support

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cancer survivors attending their follow-up visits

Exclusion criteria

• Cardiac disease NYHA II
• non-controlled hypertension
• non-controlled metabolic disease
• chronic infectious disease
• non-controlled pain
• risk of bone fracture
• severe anemia, leucopenia or thrombopenia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 4 patient groups

Supervised exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Cardiorespiratory and resistance training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise

Exercise + diet counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Cardiorespiratory and resistance training + Diet counseling to improve food intake(more fruit and vegetable and less fat food)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise + Diet counseling

Exercise + diet counseling + psycho support

Experimental group

Description:

Cardiorespiratory and resistance training + Diet counseling to improve food intake(more fruit and vegetable and less fat food) + Weekly sessions to modify the behaviour

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise + Diet counseling + psycho-emotional support

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

They will keep their usual way of life