NCT00966667

Health Behaviors in Patients Who Have Finished Treatment for Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Colorectal Cancer

Health Behaviors Among Individuals Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 222 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Gathering information over time from patients who have finished treatment for colorectal cancer may help doctors predict which cancer survivors will improve their physical activity and diet. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying health behaviors in patients who have finished treatment for stage I, stage II, or stage III colorectal cancer.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * To characterize patterns and identify predictors of post-treatment physical activity and dietary changes made by colorectal cancer survivors. Secondary * To identify the affective and cognitive effects of post-treatment physical activity and dietary changes in these patients. * To identify these patients' preferences regarding diet and physical activity health promotion programs. OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients complete surveys at baseline and at 3 and 6 months. A randomly selected subset of 84 patients also receive an activity monitor to be use at each of the 3 time points. The acceptability of their use is assessed and whether activity levels change across the 3 time points and the extent to which they are convergent with self-reported physical activity are examined. During each survey, questionnaires are administered to assess the following areas: physical/medical characteristics (self-reported), self-efficacy for physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and dietary fat intake; outcome expectations for physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and dietary fat intake; physical activity and diet behavioral self-regulation; illness representations (causal attributions and controllability of recurrence); perceived risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) recurrence; emotional representations of CRC (cancer-related anxiety and worry about cancer recurrence); healthcare provider recommendations to alter physical activity and dietary intake; social influence from important others; current physical activity and dietary intake; and diet and physical activity program preferences. Patients who received the activity monitor are asked feedback on acceptability of them. Measures of sociodemographics and disease/treatment characteristics (via medical chart review) are recorded.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-07
• Completion: 2019-08-07
• First posted: 2009-08-27
• Last updated: 2019-09-10

Locations

14 sites across 1 country: United States