NCT04314479

Improving Adherence to ACS Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity in Latinas With Cancer and Their Informal Caregivers

Improving Adherence to American Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity Through Integrated Symptom Management in Latinas With Cancer and Their Informal Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 144 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Arizona · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research study is testing the feasibility and acceptability of a 12-week intervention that integrates telephone coaching and printed materials about the ACS guidelines and healthy lifestyle behaviors in order to manage symptoms after treatment for cancer. We will recruit 57 dyads (the survivor plus one identified informal caregiver) from the community.

Detailed description

This research study is testing the feasibility and acceptability of a 12-week intervention that integrates telephone coaching and printed materials about the ACS guidelines and healthy lifestyle behaviors in order to manage symptoms after treatment for cancer. The study population is 36 Latinas who have recently completed treatment for solid tumor cancers and their informal caregiver (36 dyads). Research suggests that family members can be facilitators to behavior change more specifically, Latinos rely on family support more than non-Hispanic Whites. Fewer than 20% of Latina cancer survivors meet the American Cancer Society's (ACS) Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity. Healthier lifestyle behaviors (such as diet and physical activity) would result in an immediate benefit of reduced symptoms and long-term benefit of improved health while lowering cancer risk. This pilot study tests an intervention that will help in lessening survivors' symptoms to improve adherence to the ACS guidelines for cancer prevention ultimately improving overall health. A telephone-based intervention does not require any in-person meetings (outside of initial recruitment) and lessens participant burden. The Specific Aims of this project are to evaluate this intervention among 36 survivors who have recently completed treatment for solid tumor cancers and their informal caregivers to 1) Determine the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention 2) Establish the preliminary efficacy for improvement in diet, physical activity, and quality of life for the dyads, and symptom burden for survivors through surveys given at baseline and study completion as well as a weekly symptom distress survey.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Symptom Assessment and Health Coaching	The intervention condition will involve weekly symptom assessment and health coaching to manage symptoms and to meet the ACS cancer prevention guidelines provided over the telephone by trained health coaches. Participants will be completing the same forms/assessments throughout the study. The content will be built around the Symptom Management Toolkit. The coaching will be dictated by the symptoms the survivor or the support person is experiencing the week of the intervention call. All calls begin with the symptom assessments, only the intervention arm includes intervention coaching that focuses on physical activity, stress management, or eating a healthy diet to improve adherence to the ACS guidelines for cancer prevention. We anticipate coaching sessions will last approximately 20 - 45 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-15
• Primary completion: 2019-06-08
• Completion: 2019-06-16
• First posted: 2020-03-19
• Last updated: 2020-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States