Understanding and Improving Quality of Life Through a Wireless Activity Tracker: Observational Phase

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Brain Tumor

Treatments: Device: Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02674945

1406M51644

#2014NTLS054 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project attempts to correlate wireless activity data with quality of life and sleep surveys in order to find a new method of monitoring patients during their treatment.

Full description

This project proposes the investigation, validation, and use of a wireless activity tracker to better understand and improve the quality of life of patients suffering from brain tumors. The Fitbit flex wireless syncing activity tracker will be distributed to 75 patients, and the electronic infrastructure to automatically track patients will be created and adapted for the cohort. Surveys will routinely assess the ease-of-use and any problems arising. This heterogenous population of patients suffering from brain tumors will be tracked and compared through routine evaluation of their quality of life through well-established surveys, including the SF-36 and FACT-Br. The association between data recorded from the activity tracker and the QOL surveys will be quantified to validate the activity tracking data as a surrogate measure of part, if not all, of QOL as well as sleep.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed with primary or metastatic brain tumor
• able to wear wireless activity tracker
• able to complete QOL and sleep surveys every 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• unable to provide consent
• age < 18
• lack of use of the wireless activity tracker for more than 2 consecutive months

Trial design

29 participants in 1 patient group

Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit

Description:

Patients with brain tumor(s) will be give a wireless activity tracker (fitbit flex) to use during treatment. They will complete quality of life surveys and a sleep survey.

Treatment:

Device: Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit