NCT04213235

Educational Materials Development for Physical Activity in CAncer

E.D.u.CA: a Guidebook to Increase Physical Activity Level in Cancer Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universita di Verona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In cancer setting, physical exercise has emerged as an important factor to control cancer-related symptoms and improve patients' quality of life. In addition, the correlation between physical activity and survival is recently consolidating. Nevertheless, several previous studies have shown that the majority of cancer patients are insufficiently active. Written information, for example a guidebook, may be a good oppurtunity, to improve lifestyle. Developing and testing an exercise guidebook, based on Theory of Planned Behavior and specifically designed for cancer patients, may be an effective tool to deliver information and increase physical activity level in this population.

Conditions

• Mixed Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical activity	The participants will receive the written exercise guidebook and a counselling by kinesiologist. Moreover, they will be instructed how to increase their physical activity level.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-11-01
• Completion: 2020-11-01
• First posted: 2019-12-30
• Last updated: 2019-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy