NCT05534386

A Self-management Based Survivorship Intervention for Chinese Cancer Survivors

How to Prevent Lost in Transition? - Adaptive Randomised Controlled Trial of a Self-management Based Survivorship Intervention for Chinese Cancer Survivors

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 486 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study, using a sequential multiple assessment randomized controlled trial (SMART) approach, will evaluate a cancer survivorship care intervention on physical symptom distress, weight management, self-efficacy in managing cancer and health-related quality of life among Chinese patients recently completed curative cancer treatment.

Detailed description

This study, using this SMART approach, will assess the effect of a cancer survivorship care intervention on physical symptom distress, self-efficacy in managing cancer, weight management and health-related quality of life among Chinese patients recently completing curative cancer treatment. First, the investigators will test the effect of a one-off, multidisciplinary team face-to-face assessment (namely, the cancer survivorship clinic) with personalized advice on symptom management, lifestyle modification and anxiety management in reducing the case prevalence of symptom distress, increasing the proportion meeting the weight management criteria, and improving self-efficacy and health-related quality of life among cancer survivors in post-treatment survivorship, in comparison to those receiving skills-based pamphlets for symptom management and lifestyle recommendations. Secondly, this study aims to explore if a step-up targeted personalized intervention is more effective for patients who continue to have symptom distress and/or not to meet the weight management criteria if patients have attended cancer survivorship clinic (i.e. the embedded adaptive intervention) in comparison to those receiving skills-based pamphlets.

Conditions

• Physical Symptom Distress
• Weight Management
• Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cancer survivorship care intervention	A one-off face-to-face assessment and personal advice by members of a multidisciplinary team
BEHAVIORAL	Step-up targeted personalized intervention	To provide a more personalized intervention to the participants, but focusing more on symptom management and weight control.
BEHAVIORAL	First stage control intervention	A set of skill-based pamphlets will be given.
BEHAVIORAL	Second stage control intervention	Those in the survivorship clinic arm will be asked to follow the advice given by the multidisciplinary team in the initial visit and for those in the control arm will be asked to follow the advices printed in the skill-based self-management pamphlet

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-12
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2022-09-09
• Last updated: 2025-05-13

Locations

7 sites across 1 country: Hong Kong