Health-promoting Lifestyle in a Genetic Counseling Clinic

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Health-promoting Lifestyle of Breast Cancer Patients and Family Members in a Chinese Genetic Counseling Clinic: A Cross-sectional Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05545254
• Other study ID #: FNF201830
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 13, 2019
• Est. completion date: March 4, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Fudan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This was a cross-seThis was a cross-sectional study, which aimed to describe the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels with different socio-economic variables. 259 patients conformed to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were enrolled. Participants were sent a questionnaire web-link to be invited to finish this survey. 140 participants were finally included in this study. Finally, a good level of health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members was acquired. More education and intervention should be tailored to enhance and encourage health-promoting lifestyle behaviors in participants with low monthly family income. Additionally, developing nutritional curriculum and strengthening the publicity of nutritional popular science were priorities in the future improvement measures.ctional study

Description:

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels with different socio-economic variables.

Method: This was a cross-sectional study. The participants in this study originated from a genetic counseling clinic of a cancer center in Shanghai, China. 259 patients conformed to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were screened and contact from November 2019 to March 2022. Participants agreed to participate were sent a questionnaire web-link to be invited to finish this survey. Two questionnaires were included in the link, one referring to the socio-economic information, the other referring to the health-promoting lifestyle. Chinese Health-promoting lifestyle profile-Ⅱ(HPLP-Ⅱ) was used to evaluate the health-promoting lifestyle.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: March 4, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: March 4, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• over 18 years old;

• with a diagnosis of breast cancer or having a family history of breast cancer

• the first time to take genetic testing in our clinic

• ECOG<2.

Exclusion Criteria:

• diagnosed with psychiatric or intellectual impairment

• having a history of genetic testing previously

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breast Cancer
• Breast Neoplasms
• Genetic Testing

Intervention

Genetic:
• genetic testing
Two questionnaires were included in the link, one referring to the demographic information, and another one involving the health-promoting lifestyle. In the demographic information, the genetic test results were not requested to be written, but the participants need to answer whether they understand the results. The HPLP-? is an scale instrument used to evaluate a person's health-promoting lifestyle behaviors, which contains 52 items and has been translated into Chinese in 1997. It contains 6 subscales: self-actualization, health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, interpersonal relationships and stress management.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center	Shanghai

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fudan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Chinese Health-promoting lifestyle profile-?	HPLP-? is an scale instrument used to evaluate a person's health-promoting lifestyle behaviors, which contains 52 items and has been translated into Chinese in 1997.It contains 6 subscales: self-actualization, health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, interpersonal relationships and stress management. A Likert 4-scale is used to measure each item, and never to regularly signifies 1-4. The total score ranges from 52 to 208. Higher scores mean better health-promoting behaviors.	The primary outcome was measured during one month after the genetic test.