The STEPP Study: Sensors To Evaluate Physical Performance

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oncology

Treatments: Other: Digital Physical Measures and Survey Assessments

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03952767

LCCC 1851

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study assesses the association between digital functional measures of physical and patient-reported standard onocological assessments, like Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS).

Full description

This study assess the association between digital functional measures from physical monitoring devices (devices like a watch tracking steps, a heart rate monitor) and patient-reported standard oncological assessments. The study will also test the feasibility of obtaining the measures in clinic and at home from the monitoring devices in participants with cancer. Participants will be asked to spend 1 hour in clinic performing simple tasks such as walking and standing with 7 digital devices recording movement data. The participants will also be asked to fill out survey data regarding their health. At-home data will be collected for 14 days. During this time participants will wear a watch to collect movement and step data, and a lumbar belt to collect movement data.

Primary Objective:

1. Assess the association of 5 main digital physical functional measures (mean steps per day, mean sedentary activity time, light activity time, moderate activity time, and vigorous activity time (in minutes) per day) recorded at home with patient-reported standard oncological assessment (e.g. KPS)

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. All genders aged ≥ 18 years of age
2. Patients being seen at UNCCH for treatment of cancer.
3. English-speakers
4. Able to understand and cooperate with study procedures.
5. Patients with solid tumors or hematological malignancies, and self-reported KPS ≤70 to ≥ 100.

Signed and dated informed consent and HIPPA.

Exclusion criteria

1. Subjects using investigational/experimental products.
2. Has dementia, altered mental status, or any psychiatric or co-morbid condition prohibiting the understanding or rending of informed consent.
3. Unable or unwilling to complete physical performance assessments including the at-home wearable device for 14 days.
4. Unable to speak English.
5. Subjects who report any other medical condition, recreational substance use, or medication use which would prevent them from completing study tasks or impair the providing of informed consent.
6. Subjects who are allergic to silicone or adhesives. Subjects with cardiac pacemakers, electronic pumps or any other implanted medical devices.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 1 patient group

Digital Physical Measures and Survey Assessments

Experimental group

Description:

Digital physical measure data will be collected in clinic and at home and survey assessments will be collected

Treatment:

Other: Digital Physical Measures and Survey Assessments