The Personal Resilience Empowerment Program (PREP) at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health \& Medicine was designed in Legacy Meridian to assist all selected patients with upcoming hospitalization. For the "Personal Resilience Empowerment Program (PREP) in the perioperative setting of surgically treated cancer patients", hereafter "the Project or PREP", the Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health \& Medicine is designing a new pilot program to focus on the needs of oncology patients. All patients diagnosed with cancer that will undergo a scheduled surgical (Hepato-Biliary, and Thoracic) procedure in Hackensack Meridian Health and specifically in the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, will be eligible to participate (for more details please see eligibility criteria, section 4). Overall, this pilot project will include 5 coaching sessions and an introductory session/visit that will take place on the physician's office. The initial physician visit will focus on patient eligibility, introduction to the Project, informed consent and a pre-intervention survey and will be conducted by the principal investigator or one of the sub-investigators listed above. The following 5 sessions will be conducted by one of the integrative health coaches/registered nurses (for details please see section 5). A post-intervention survey will be completed during the final session and repeated at one month, and at 3 months from the final session. The goal of this project is to investigate whether using the PREP as an intervention in patients diagnosed with cancer would result in improving various metrics including improvements to resilience, sleep, activity, purpose, nutrition, empowerment to manage one's own health and well-being, decrease in pain medication use and more rapid return to previous functional status according to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
37
5 coaching sessions that will take place either in-person or over the phone with a research nurse (RN)-Health Coach. During the sessions, the health coach will focus on introducing the 5 pillars of health and well-being: sleep, activity, purpose, nutrition and resilience. Will introduce breathing techniques participants and will teach patients how to acquire mind-body skills to assist in stress management, learn to thrive by building resilience, feel empowered to manage their health, gain self-care skills to decrease anxiety, pain and nausea naturally, control the stress response and trigger the relaxation response to promote well-being and discover what foods fuel the body in preparation for healing, during recovery and overall health.
Hackensack Meridian Health - Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Neptune City, New Jersey, United States
Hackensack Meridian Health - Riverview Medical Center
Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Sleep
Quality of life concerning sleep (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Within two weeks from discharge, following the the post-operative visit (during the same day they would have the post-op visit, last coaching session and the post-intervention survey)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Activity
Quality of life concerning activity (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Within two weeks from discharge, following the the post-operative visit (during the same day they would have the post-op visit, last coaching session and the post-intervention survey)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Purpose
Quality of life concerning feeling of purpose (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Within two weeks from discharge, following the the post-operative visit (during the same day they would have the post-op visit, last coaching session and the post-intervention survey)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Nutrition
Quality of life concerning nutrition (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Within two weeks from discharge, following the the post-operative visit (during the same day they would have the post-op visit, last coaching session and the post-intervention survey)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Sleep
Quality of life concerning sleep (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre-intervention survey and 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Activity
Quality of life concerning activity (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Purpose
Quality of life concerning feeling of purpose (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Nutrition
Quality of life concerning nutrition (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Sleep
Quality of life concerning sleep (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre-intervention survey and 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Activity
Quality of life concerning activity (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Purpose
Quality of life concerning feeling of purpose (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Nutrition
Quality of life concerning nutrition (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Resilience
Quality of life concerning resilience (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Post intervention (survey completed at the end of last coaching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Resilience
Quality of life concerning resilience (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Resilience
Quality of life concerning resilience (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Empowerment
Quality of life concerning Empowerment (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the post intervention survey
Time frame: Post intervention (survey completed at the end of last coaching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Empowerment
Quality of life concerning Empowerment (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 1-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 1 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 30 days after the last couching session)
Change in Quality of Life Post Intervention (Coaching Sessions) - Empowerment
Quality of life concerning Empowerment (on 1-5 Likert scale with 1 being the worst and 5 the best in each category) developed for this project. Change between the pre and the 3-month post intervention survey
Time frame: At 3 month Post intervention (survey was sent at 90 days after the last couching session)
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