Effect of Exergaming Exercises and Mediterranean Diet on Thyroid Cancer Patients Following Total Thyroidectomy

Thyroid Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: Effect of Exergaming Exercises and Mediterranean Diet on Thyroid Cancer Patients Following Total Thyroidectomy

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Effect of exergaming exercises and mediteranean diet on thyroid cancer patients following total thyroidectomy adult patients from both gender will be randomly assigned equally to exergaming exercises, Mediterranean diet groups using computer-generated block randomization.

Group A: Control group No intervention was provided for 12 weeks except thyroid hormone replacement therapy Group B: Exergaming exercise The volunteers carried out 36 exergaming sessions, with progressive increase in the duration of the games according to their tolerance,and reached a maximum duration of 50 minutes per session, included the realization of the games and the rest between activities. The exergaming protocol was performed three times a week, for a total of 12 weeks Group C: Mediterranean diet All participants participated in the Mediterranean diet intervention for 12 weak and received dietary training from professional nutritionists at the baseline visit and samples of a Mediterranean diet for three times during the trial.PREDIMED questionnaire is used To assess adherence to the Mediterranean diet Group D: Exergaming exercises and Mediterranean diet Exergaming exercises are used in addition to Mediterranean diet

Clinical Trial Description

Outcome measures

1. Flow cytometry analyzer for NKC (CD3- CD16+ CD56+).

2. Immunoassay analyzer for thyroid profile (TSH,T3,T4)

3. Quality of life questionnaire

4. Fatigue questionnaire

5. PREDIMED questionnaire to asses diet adherence. Outcome measures will be measured at baseline and after 3 months of the treatement intervention

A) assessment

1. Quality of life questionnaire questionnaire

2. .Fatigue questionnaire

3. Adherence to diet A validated 14-item questionnaire for the assessment of adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (PREDIMED) will be recorded for all the enrolled subjects

• Biochemical Analysis. [B] Intervention

1. Exergaming The practice of exergaming was performed using the Xbox 360 Kinect console (Microsoft, Albuquerque, NM)

2. Mediterranean diet All participants participated in the Mediterranean diet intervention for 12 weak and received dietary training from professional nutritionists at the baseline visit and samples of a Mediterranean diet for three times during the trial.

4 groups will be randomly assigned Group A: Control group No intervention was provided for 12 weeks except thyroid hormone replacement therapy Group B: Exergaming exercise The volunteers carried out 36 exergaming sessions, with progressive increase in the duration of the games according to their tolerance,and reached a maximum duration of 50 minutes per session, included the realization of the games and the rest between activities. The exergaming protocol was performed three times a week, for a total of 12 weeks Group C: Mediterranean diet All participants participated in the Mediterranean diet intervention for 12 weak and received dietary training from professional nutritionists at the baseline visit and samples of a Mediterranean diet for three times during the trial.PREDIMED questionnaire is used To assess adherence to the Mediterranean diet Group D: Exergaming exercises and Mediterranean diet Exergaming exercises are used in addition to Mediterranean diet ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Thyroid Cancer
• Thyroid Diseases
• Thyroid Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT05265819
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: Nabil M Abdel-Aal, PhD
• Phone: +201200133613
• Email: nabil.mahmoud@cu.edu.eg
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2022
• Completion date: December 5, 2022