The Efficacy of Health Partnership Program for Cancer Patients

Summary

The Objectives of this study is

1. To evaluate the efficacy for exercise, diet, and posttraumatic growth as a result of participating in tailored program (Health Partnership Program) for 24 weeks
2. To evaluate the efficacy for quality of life, life satisfaction, health leadership, anxiety, depression, impact of event, social support, cancer belief as a result of participating in tailored program (Health Partnership Program) for 24 weeks
3. To assess the efficacy of such intervention compared with usual care in cancer patients

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Colon Cancer
• Gastric Cancer
• Lung Cancer

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tailored health partnership program

When intervention group participate in the tailored program, they can receive various information which is related with three strategic areas (exercise, diet, and posttraumatic growth). Three areas are based on the transtheoretical model (TTM), social cognitive theory, PRECEDE-PROCEED model, and Health behavior model. Patients will be received tailored manual and workbook for health tele-coaching that help them to lead their healthy life. The health tele-coaching will be operated sixteen times for 24 weeks. Intervention group will be provided three contents (exercise, diet, and posttraumatic growth) from health partners. The health partners took a certificate that is related with health, leadership and coaching. Also, patients will be provided a workshop for leadership that is dealt with controlling their healthy life. It will be proceeded for four hours. Three hours is for the leadership, and the last one hour is for presentation of their health mission statement.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care and health education workshop

While intervention group participate in the tailored health partnership program, control group can receive various information which is related with ten contents for health management (smoke and drinking, diet, exercise, posttraumatic growth, distress, pain, comorbidity, sleep disturbance, pain, and energy conservation). They will be provided a workshop and booklet for a health education for four hours. Twelve month later, they will be provided the tailored health partnership program which is especially dealing with exercise, diet, and posttraumatic growth as same as the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Samsung Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Seoul National University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Korea University Anam Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Asan Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Ajou University School of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Kyunghee University Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• National Cancer Center, Korea

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• YoungSung Lee, MD, Ph.D · National Cancer Center, Korea

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-02-29

Primary Completion

2012-12-31

Completion

2013-06-30

Countries

• South Korea

Study Locations