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Effects of Bright-light Exposure Combined With Specific Exercise Training (BEST) Program in Patients With Cancer

NCT05875870 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-02-17

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Summary

This study plans to investigate the effectiveness of six-week light exposure combined with an exercise training program on improving sleep-wake rhythm, physical and mental symptoms, quality of life, one-year recurrence rate, and one-year survival rate of patients with lung and esophageal cancer.

Conditions

  • Lung Neoplasm
  • Esophageal Neoplasms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Daylight exposure combine walking

1. Out-door of bright-light exposure in the morning (36 min/day, 7 times/week) for six weeks. 2. Tailored to the individual patient with moderate intensity of walking (3 sessions/week) for six weeks. Duration of each session depends on one-on-one exercise consultation via communication software (LINE App). The duration of walking in week 1 is 15 minutes, then increasing 5 minutes each week if the patient has tolerance. If the patient cannot tolerate the duration, the coach will instruct to keep the same duration for the following week. Basically, the goal of duration in week six is 40 minutes. 3. Weekly exercise consultation via communication software (LINE App). 4. Teaching strategy includes one-on one instruction (hard-copy of teaching manual), video, and webpage.

BEHAVIORAL

Stretching exercise

The stretching exercise includes two movements for the upper body and two movements for the lower body, 10 minutes each time, three times a week, for 6 weeks. The researcher will explain to the participants about how to perform the stretching exercise, according to an instruction manual (hardcopy) for the exercise regimen. A video is shown to the participants (the content same as hardcopy of education manual).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Hui-Mei Chen, PhD · National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-24
Primary Completion
2028-05-15
Completion
2028-05-15

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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