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Nutrition and Physical Exercise Study

NCT01540968 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2015-06-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a combined treatment of nutritional therapy and physical exercise in palliative cancer out-patients. The investigators hypothesize that this combined intervention consisting of an increased energy- and protein intake and physical exercise level improves quality of life (QoL), functional and clinical status.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition & physical exercise

Patients will be randomly assigned to intensive individual nutritional counselling including oral nutritional supplements and a specifically designed exercise program combining strength and balance training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kantonsspital Winterthur KSW

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter E. Ballmer, Prof. Dr. · Kantonsspital Winterthur KSW

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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Diseases

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