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Exercise Interventions for Improving Health in Breast Cancer Survivors

NCT06376578 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2024-04-19

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Summary

Supervised, prescribed exercise has positive effects on body composition, physical functioning, psychological wellbeing and quality of life for patients after breast cancer treatment. However, exercise interventions are often time consuming, commonly take place at a health or fitness facility, and usually require a trained professional to be present. Cost-effective, enjoyable and practical approaches, that can be adopted at home or in local surroundings are needed. For example, an alternative approach is using an electronic physical activity tracking wristwatch to help patients engage with exercise or physical activity. Research demonstrates the importance of structured and supervised exercise for breast cancer survivors. However, it is not known whether other approaches (e.g. home-based exercise and physical activity) alongside the use of personalised technology-enabled feedback, can cause similar improvements to health when compared to structured exercise. The overall aim of this study is to determine whether cardiorespiratory fitness is changed by a technology enabled, remotely delivered exercise intervention and to determine whether this change is similar to the change caused by a partly supervised, prescribed exercise intervention. This study will also determine the influence of both interventions on physical functioning, body composition and blood pressure.

Conditions

  • Breast Cancer Female

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise intervention

Exercise training will progress incrementally, increasing the duration of exercise on the treadmill by 5 minutes every 2 weeks whereby the final duration on the treadmill will be 35 minutes and the total duration will map onto recommended guidelines of 150 minutes per week. Throughout the 8-weeks, the duration of exercise on the cycle ergometer will remain at 15 minutes. Exercise intensity will progress throughout the 8-week intervention on both the treadmill and the cycle ergometer by 5% every 2 weeks, whereby exercise during the final week will be at 70% VO2max.

BEHAVIORAL

Polar A380 wristwatch physical activity tracker

The research team will monitor individual exercise training weekly using virtual/electronic methods and a 30 minute telephone call. The researcher will provide feedback about how the participant's activity compares to physical activity recommendations, and encouragement and support will be provided verbally.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bath

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Max Age
69 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-05
Primary Completion
2020-01-30
Completion
2020-01-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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