Family Caregivers Clinical Trial
Official title:
Development and Pilot Testing of a Home-Based Physical Activity Intervention for Family Caregivers of People With Advanced Cancer
Verified date | March 2015 |
Source | Jewish General Hospital |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | Canada: Ethics Review Committee |
Study type | Interventional |
The purpose of this study is to develop an individually tailored home-based physical activity intervention for family caregivers of people with advanced cancer and assess the feasibility of a future randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the effects of this intervention.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 28 |
Est. completion date | March 2015 |
Est. primary completion date | March 2015 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Both |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - 18 years of age or older - able to speak and read English - involved in the care of a person with advanced cancer (stage III or IV) at home Exclusion Criteria: - already participating in physical activity more than three days a week and 30 minutes or more per session as assessed by self-report - a current mental illness that has been treated with medication for <8 weeks or that the caregiver intends to initiate medication for during the period of the intervention - any major physical health problem that would prevent caregivers from participating in the intervention as assessed by the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) |
Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Country | Name | City | State |
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Canada | Jewish General Hospital | Montreal | Quebec |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Jewish General Hospital | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), McGill University |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Rate of recruitment | Frequency counts of the number of participants recruited from each of the recruitment sites will be conducted and the overall rate of recruitment will be calculated. This criterion for advancing to a full RCT will be met if the estimated sample size required for a full RCT can likely be recruited in 2 years. |
9 months of running feasibility trial | No |
Primary | Number of participants who drop out | Frequency counts for the number of participants who drop out of both the experimental and control group will be conducted and the percentage rate of attrition in each group will be calculated. This criterion for advancing to a full RCT will be met if less than 30% of participants dropped out of the experimental or control group. |
9 months of running feasibility trial | No |
Primary | Number of items complete on the outcome questionnaires | To assess acceptability of outcome questionnaires and feasibility of data collection procedures for a full RCT, descriptive statistics (frequency counts) of complete versus incomplete items as well as the expected versus actual completion dates will be conducted at baseline, and week 6, 9, and 12 for both the experimental and control group on the following outcome measures: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS); Lee Fatigue Scale (LFS); General Self-Rated Health question. This criterion for advancing to a full RCT will be met if less than 10% of items on each of the questionnaires are missing and less than 10% of participants are missing any one item on each of the questionnaires. |
Baseline, 6, 9, and 12 weeks | No |
Primary | Rate of adherence to individual physical activity plans | The number of weeks that participants were able to engage in physical activity levels at or above their retrospective baseline physical activity level in relation to the number of weeks that they were in the study will be calculated. Rate of adherence will be calculated for individual participants and the mean and median rate of adherence will be calculated for the experimental group. The proportion of participants that were able to engage in physical activity at or above their retrospective baseline level of physical activity 0-25%, 26-50%, 51-75%, and 76-100% of the time will be calculated. Qualitative data will also be collected and analyzed to explore what factors influence adherence to the individual physical activity plans. This criterion for advancing to a full RCT will be met if the rate of adherence to the individual PA plans is greater than or equal to 75%. |
12 weeks | No |
Primary | Level of and change in physical activity levels | The mean number of Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET) hours per week that participants engaged in physical activity as well as the number of minutes per week that participants engaged in light, moderate, and vigorous intensity PA for each of the experimental and control groups will be calculated. | 12 weeks | No |
Primary | Level of adherence to physical activity intervention | The number of weeks that each participant missed receiving the intervention will be calculated. In addition, qualitative data will be collected to assess the pattern of missed weeks for each participant including the reasons that any weeks were missed. | 12 weeks | No |
Primary | Level of adherence to intervention delivery | An intervention fidelity audit will be conducted. The percentage of audited participants that engaged in each of the main components of intervention delivery (i.e pre-baseline home visit, baseline home visit, and weekly telephone calls) will be calculated. In addition, the percentage of individual intervention delivery criteria items that were met in each component will be calculated for each audited participant. | 12 weeks | No |
Secondary | Caregivers' perception of the acceptability of the intervention | Qualitative data will be collected during the weekly telephone calls and follow-up interviews to evaluate the acceptability of the structure, content, and process of the physical activity intervention. This criterion for advancing to a full RCT will be met if <10% of participants report major complaints about the intervention. |
12 weeks | No |
Secondary | Caregivers' perception of benefits and/or risks of intervention | Qualitative data will be collected at the follow-up interviews to determine caregivers' overall perception of whether or not and in what ways the physical activity intervention impacted them. | 12 weeks | No |
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