NCT01572233

Effects of Activity and Education Program on Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Effects of Personalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education Program on Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This 4-year project will be guided by a biobehavioral model for the study of exercise interventions in two phases with the purposes to : 1. explore the patients' physical activity preferences and develop doable activity lists during treatment period 2. examine the changes of health-related physical fitness component over interferon treatment 3. develop the Personalized Physical Activity and Psych-Education (PPAPE) Program and test its effects on decreasing fatigue, physical and psychological distress, and improving their health-related physical fitness and quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis C receiving Interferon with Ribavirin Combination Therapy 4. evaluate the outcome of the PPAPE program on increasing adherence to therapy, the sustained virological response (SVR) in 24 weeks after the end of treatment, and the time-consuming for education program during intervention.

Conditions

• Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Response to Therapy of

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Personalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education (PPAPE) Program	1. Effects of Personalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education Program on Patients with HCV infection 2. The third and fourth year, will be examine on the 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks during the interferon treatment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2012-04-06
• Last updated: 2012-12-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan