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Implementing Personalized Exercise Prescriptions Through Mobile Health in the Elderly Cancer Survivors

NCT05069519 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 126

Last updated 2022-12-23

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Summary

Cancer remains a vital public health concern in the U.S. Research evidence has shown that physical activity provides many physical and mental health benefits after cancer diagnosis and plays an important role in reducing all-cause, cancer-related death and cancer events in the elderly cancer survivors (CS). Adopting a physically active lifestyle may decrease cancer risks, improve cancer prognosis and quality of life.

However, most CS did not achieve recommended 150 min/week of moderate-to- vigorous physical activity (PA \[MVPA\]). This issue is particularly pronounced for CS in low-income areas who tend to have considerably less access to PA-conducive environments compared to urban peers. To this accord, it is imperative to promote PA in elderly CS to offer appropriate supportive care. Thus, implementing innovative PA interventions with the goal of improving their self-regulatory health behaviors in CS is paramount.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Personalized Smartwatch

Participants will continue with standard care, but will receive a Fitbit and be encouraged to participate in at least 150 min. moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (5 sessions aerobic exercise, 30 min. per session; and 2 sessions of strength training) per week if their body condition allows throughout the intervention period. The previously established daily and weekly exercise prescription will be offered to participants based on their previous week Fitbit data. PA improvements will be tailored over time based on each participant's previous week PA and they will be encouraged to increase PA by 5-10 min/week if possible depending on specific situations. Participants will save each workout and synchronize the Fitbit PA data to its app where they only share daily data and receive weekly personalized exercise prescriptions established in pilot studies.

BEHAVIORAL

Facebook Health Education

Participants assigned to this condition will receive a Fitbit smartwatch, continue with standard care, but will receive health education tips developed in the investigators' previous studies from a private Facebook group in which only group members and researchers can access. Additionally, the investigators will track login counts, analyze their post activity and online sentiments via texting mining and natural language processing, and then offer weekly personalized feedback based on the data to facilitate social support

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Zan Gao · University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-01
Primary Completion
2022-10-30
Completion
2022-10-30

Countries

  • United States

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