Walking for Recovery From Surgery in Improving Quality of Life in Older Adults With Lung or Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers

City of Hope

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Carcinoma; Malignant Digestive System Neoplasm; Lung Carcinoma; Caregiver; Adult Liver Carcinoma; Pancreatic Carcinoma

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise Intervention; Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment; Other: Survey Administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03267524

17277

NCI-2017-01565 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot clinical trial studies how well Walking for Recovery from Surgery works in improving quality of life in older adults with lung or gastrointestinal cancer and their family caregivers. A walking program, such as Walking for Recovery from Surgery may help support overall well-being as a caregiver, and may help improve family member or friend's recovery from surgery.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To examine whether the intervention and telehealth approach would be feasible and acceptable.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To examine patient outcome patterns suggesting the potential efficacy of the intervention on self-efficacy, functional status (daily steps, 6-minute walk time, timed up and go), psychological distress, symptoms, and global health status.

OUTLINE:

Patients and caregivers receive Walking for Recovery from Surgery prehabilitation intervention in 4 sessions 3-7 days before surgery, before discharge, and at 2 and 7 days post-discharge.

After completion of study, patients and caregivers are followed up for 2 months.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

-Inclusion:

• PATIENT: Diagnosis of lung or GI (colorectal, pancreas, liver) cancers
• PATIENT: Scheduled to undergo surgery
• PATIENT: >= 65 years
• PATIENT: Able to read and understand English
• CAREGIVER: Family member/friend identified by the patient as the primary caregiver before and after surgery
• CAREGIVER: >= 21 years
• CAREGIVER: Able to read and understand English
• This study will be conducted in patients and family caregivers who are scheduled to undergo lung or GI cancer surgery treatment
• There are no restrictions related to performance status or life expectancy
• All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent

Exclusion

• Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 1 patient group

Supportive Care (Walking for Recovery from Surgery)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients and caregivers receive Walking for Recovery from Surgery prehabilitation intervention in 4 sessions 3-7 days before surgery, before discharge, and at 2 and 7 days post-discharge.

Treatment:

Other: Survey Administration

Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment

Behavioral: Exercise Intervention