Physical Exercise in the Quality of Life and Physical Fitness of Elderly Women With Breast Cancer

Summary

Among the possibilities of intervention to minimize the effects of cancer treatment, the exercises are efficient in improving the physical fitness and quality of life of the elderly in treatment. The goal is to compare the effects of two home physical exercise protocols on quality of life and physical fitness of elderly people with breast cancer who are in hormone use. A study was carried out at the Institute of Integral Medicine Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP) within the Professional Master Program in Palliative Care Associated with the Residency Program in Health, which evaluated the effectiveness of a protocol of 29 exercises with walking sessions, performed at home , In the quality of life and physical fitness of the elderly in the treatment of breast cancer. The results of the mentioned research showed that the elderly showed improvement both in quality of life and physical fitness.

In view of the results and the clinical and functional kinetic observation of these patients, the hypothesis was that a shorter intervention protocol, with fewer exercises with fewer repetitions and a lower degree of difficulty can bring results similar to those found, requiring a shorter time In the accomplishment of the exercises, which can favor the adherence to the protocol by the patients, still achieving positive results in their quality of life and physical fitness.

The elderly will undergo evaluations to characterize the sample through questionnaires, the physical fitness assessment will be performed through the Senior Fitness Test (SFT) and anthropometric evaluation before (beginning of the research), in the 6th week and after the 12th week of the research. It will be offered the elderly, instructional material developed for this research - printed manual. It will consist of a routine of 12 exercises to be performed autonomously for range of motion and muscular fitness, using the environmental resources of the home. All control and training guidelines for using the manual will be offered through an introductory lecture and subsequent weekly telephone contacts (twice a week). Participants should complete their respective program for a total period of 12 weeks and mark in the manual how often they performed the exercises. The control group used a protocol with 29 home exercises in a longer manual. The results will be obtained from the statistical package SPSS 10.0 for Windows and a p \<0.05 will be accepted.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer
• Physical Activity
• Physical Fitness
• Quality of Life

Interventions

OTHER

Short intervention protocol

Will be offered an instructional material that will consist of a routine of 12 exercises to be performed autonomously for range of motion and muscular fitness, using the environmental resources of the home. It will be suggested a daily frequency in the execution of this exercise routine. Also, stimuli and guidelines will be given for the practice of active movement (walking) so that they accumulate at least 10 to 20 minutes of this activity daily. All control and training guidelines for using the manual will be offered through an introductory lecture and subsequent weekly telephone contacts (twice a week). Participants should complete their respective program for a total period of 12 weeks and mark in the manual how often they performed the exercises.

OTHER

Long intervention protocol

This Manual guides its implementation in a progressive way and at the end it totals about 30 to 45 min of physical exercises per day. All control and training guidelines for use of the manual will be offered through an introductory lecture and subsequent weekly telephone contacts (twice a week). Participants should complete their respective program for a total period of 12 weeks and mark in the manual how often they performed the exercises. Therefore, it guides the implementation of daily walks with cumulative effect.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• JOSE ROBERTO DA SILVA JUNIOR, DOCTORATE · Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira

• ANA CLARA CARVALHO GONÇALVES GUERRA, MASTER · Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

60 Years

Max Age

74 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-08-15

Primary Completion

2017-02-11

Completion

2017-02-11