This 4-year project will be guided by a biobehavioral model for the study of exercise interventions in two phases with the purposes to : 1. explore the patients' physical activity preferences and develop doable activity lists during treatment period 2. examine the changes of health-related physical fitness component over interferon treatment 3. develop the Personalized Physical Activity and Psych-Education (PPAPE) Program and test its effects on decreasing fatigue, physical and psychological distress, and improving their health-related physical fitness and quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis C receiving Interferon with Ribavirin Combination Therapy 4. evaluate the outcome of the PPAPE program on increasing adherence to therapy, the sustained virological response (SVR) in 24 weeks after the end of treatment, and the time-consuming for education program during intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
300
1. Effects of Personalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education Program on Patients with HCV infection 2. The third and fourth year, will be examine on the 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks during the interferon treatment.
National Taiwan University Hospital
Taipei, Taiwan
RECRUITINGEffects of Activity and Education Program on Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Infection
Phase I of this project, the first and second year, the measurement time will be collected on the baseline (before treatment, T0), the 8 weeks (T1), 16 weeks (T2), and 24 weeks (T3) during treatment.
Time frame: 4-year project
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