The purpose is to assess the adherence and the efficiency of a home-based training program on muscular strength, endurance and the quality of life, fatigue, physical activity, anxiety and depression for colon cancer patient treated by chemotherapy.
It's a 9-weeks experimentation with 4 moments (every 3 weeks) to do the tests.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
50
A home-based training program of 8 exercises to do 5 times a week during 9 weeks
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc
Brussels, Belgium
RECRUITINGMuscular strength measured by Microfet
Time frame: 15 minutes
Quality of life measured by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 minutes
Fatigue measured by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 minutes
Physical activity measured by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 minutes
Anxiety measured by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 minutes
Exercise tolerance measured by Six minute walking test
Time frame: 6 minutes
Depression measured by questionnaire
Time frame: 3 minutes
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