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Effectiveness of Exercise Through Video Games in Reducing Fatigue Among Children With Leukemia

NCT04663516 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2021-02-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

40 children with cancer who fulfills the inclusion criteria will be included. Participants will be recruited from King Fahad Children's Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City and King Khaled University Hospital. After obtaining written formal consent, children will be randomly assigned to two groups, control and experimental. Experimental group will play 60 minutes of Wii physical activity games for three weeks, twice each week. while control group will receive conventional therapy. Fatigue will be assessed using pediatric multidimensional fatigue scale- child proxy before, weekly during the study and after. Functional capacity will be measured by six minute walk test before and after study duration, and physical activity will be repeatedly measured by godin-shephard leisure time physical activity questionnaire. All data will be analyzed using appropriate statistical analysis.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Exergaming

games provided by the console requiring the movement of upper body, lower body and trunk.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • King Saud University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • afnan masoud · MSc student

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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Diseases

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