Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Location contact
Bonnie Spring, PhD, ABPP
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Bonnie Sring, Ph.D.
CONTACT
NCT Number: NCT05687604
The goal of this clinical trial is to improve cancer patient's health, survival, and quality of life by dispelling risk behaviors for Northwestern Memorial Health Care (NMHC) patients who are cancer survivors.
The main question[s] STELLAR aims to answer are:
* How best to combine three behavior interventions (physical activity promotion, smoking cessation, obesity treatment) into one treatment. * Evaluate the reach of the program. We will look at the number, proportion, and representativeness of participants in terms of disease characteristics, socioeconomic status, telehealth readiness, and race/ethnicity. * Evaluate the effects of the STELLAR program relative to enhanced usual care (information provision) on cancer risk behaviors, patient care access, care quality, and communication.
Participants will be provided goals related to their physical activity, smoking, and/or weight loss and asked to track their health behaviors via an app, excel file, or on paper. At baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months into the study, participants will provide survey responses and physical measurements like height and weight. Additionally, those in the Facilitated group will complete 12 telehealth sessions with study staff to discuss progress towards their study goals.
Researchers will compare the Facilitated group to the Self Guided group to see if the Facilitated intervention group is able to reach more participants that enhances care only.
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Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Bonnie Spring, PhD, ABPP
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Bonnie Sring, Ph.D.
CONTACT
The goal of this clinical trial is to decrease adverse outcomes and improve cancer patient's health, survival, and quality of life by dispelling risk behaviors for Northwestern Memorial Health Care (NMHC) patients.
The main question[s] STELLAR aims to answer are:
Participants will be recruited through several channels (MyNM, direct outreach from research staff, EDW). Interested patients will then be randomly assigned to the STELLAR program arm, or Enhanced Usual Care. Participants in the STELLAR program will be enrolled for a year into the program. Participants will be provided goals related to their physical activity, smoking, and/or weight loss and asked to track their health behaviors via an app, excel file, or on paper. At baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months into the study, participants will provide survey responses and physical measurements like height and weight. Additionally, those in the FACILITATED group will complete 12 telehealth sessions with study staff to discuss progress towards their study goals.
Researchers will compare the FACILITATED intervention group to the SELF GUIDED group to see if the FACILITATED intervention group is able to reach more participants that Self Guided only.
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
goals related to their physical activity, smoking, and/or obesity, and will be asked to meet those goals weekly/daily. Participants will also be asked to record their weight, activity, and/or cigarette smoking daily, and will complete 16 telehealth sessions with study staff across the 12 months of the study. Will have physical measures taken or extracted from the medical record at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months.
Time frame: 6 Months
Effectiveness will be primarily evaluated through effects on behavioral change, which will serve as the primary outcomes: For 7-day point-prevalence smoking abstinence at 6 months (self-report of any smoking even a puff in the 7 days before the 6- month follow-up visit). For continuous outcomes (e.g., weight loss) we will use linear regression models adjusting for baseline values. For moderate to vigorous physical activity, the outcome will be transformed (e.g., logarithmically) to stabilize the variance and to satisfy the normality assumption. Secondary analyses for each outcome will adjust for the number or combination of risk factors.
Time frame: Baseline
A) We will evaluate the Reach of the risk behavior screening system by assessing the number of cancer survivors exposed to EHR screening and the proportion and representativeness of those who enroll in the study and are randomized. B) We will also evaluate the Reach of the STELLAR intervention by assessing the proportion and representativeness (in terms of disease characteristics, socioeconomic status, telehealth access, technology literacy, race/ethnicity, and insurance status) of those randomized to active intervention who attend at least one treatment session.
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Assessed using Timeline Followback interview, participants who report any smoking, even a puff, in the 7 days prior to the visit will be classified as a person that currently smokes
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
patient reported body weight in lbs.
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Patient-reported weekly amount of moderate intensity physical activity in days and minutes will be assessed at each time point. Participants will be asked in the last 7 days, how many days they engaged in moderate intensity activity. Then on the days they were active, about how many minutes they were active (Less than 30 Minutes; 30 minutes to less than 1 hour; 1 hour to less than 1.5 hours; 1.5 hours to less than 2 hours; 2 hours to less than 2.5 hours; Over 2.5 hours)
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
The following data will be extracted from the medical record: unplanned, all-cause hospital admissions; potentially avoidable, all-cause emergency department use; 7-day hospital readmissions; and use of triage clinic. Since not all patients receive all their care within the NMHC system, they will also be asked to self-report these data.
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Relevant subscales from AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (CAHPS) Cancer Care Survey will be used: The specific subscales include:
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
The Interpersonal Process of Care (IPC32), will assess the patient's thoughts on physician-patient interpersonal interactions. The IPC evaluates:
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS-29) Profile assesses fatigue, depression, anxiety, ability to participate in social roles and activities, sleep disturbance, physical function, and pain interference/intensity on a 1-5 rating scale with 1 being the worst rating and 5 being the best.
Time frame: baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Quality of Life will be assessed using the Health Related Quality of Life Short Form (HRQOL SF-12). The tool measures two independent dimensions of HRQOL: physical (physical functioning, role functioning, bodily pain, and general health) and emotional (vitality, social functioning, role functioning and mental health) as well as an aggregate score. Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better physical and mental health functioning.
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Laura Scanlan
CONTACT
Rana Mazzetta, LMSW
CONTACT
Northwestern University
Other
Acronym: STELLAR
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