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NCT Number: NCT04314479

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer Neoplasms

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Arizona Cancer Center

Tucson, Arizona, 85724, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Patients

  • Female
  • at least 18 years of age
  • diagnosis of cancer
  • speak and understand English or Spanish
  • are finishing (or have finished) curative intent cancer treatment and do not have any subsequent cancer treatments planned, except for hormonal therapy or trastuzumab for breast cancer.
  • Patients must also have at least 1 of the 5 most common cancer-related symptoms (pain, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression and/or fatigue) with a severity score of 4 or higher (2 or higher for depression) on a 0-10 rating scale which is based on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for symptom monitoring.

Caregivers

  • must be 18 years or older
  • able to speak and understand English or Spanish
  • not currently treated for cancer preserving the distinction between survivor and caregiver.

Treatment and study plan

Symptom Assessment and Health Coaching

Behavioral

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Determine the feasibility

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Feasibility assessed by consent rate of 50% and 2) completion rate of intervention of 80% Acceptability assessed by open-ended questions as part of exit interview/satisfaction survey at end of study (80% benchmark for dyads considering intervention helpful).

  2. Determine acceptability

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Acceptability assessed by completion rate of intervention of 80%. Acceptability assessed by open-ended questions as part of exit interview/satisfaction survey at end of study (80% benchmark for dyads considering intervention helpful).

  3. Establish preliminary efficacy in diet adherence.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Preliminary efficacy for improvement assessed utilizing NCI Dietary Screener Questionnaire for diet.

  4. Establish preliminary efficacy in physical activity adherence.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Preliminary efficacy for improvement assessed utilizing Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Physical Activity Questionnaire for physical activity.

  5. Establish preliminary efficacy via symptom improvement.

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Preliminary efficacy for improvement assessed utilizing General Symptom Distress Scale for symptoms/QoL and Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Self-Efficacy Short Form for self-efficacy for symptom management.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Arizona

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Mar 19, 2020
Registry last updated
Mar 19, 2020

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