Lung cancer is one of the most common cancer diseases, globally and locally. Several health benefits of increased physical activity (PA) have been reported for people with cancer. PA plays a critical role across the cancer trajectory, from prevention through to post-diagnosis and has been proposed as an alternative for improving physical and psychosocial health outcomes, reducing cancer recurrence, and cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Hence, the investigators propose to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise into daily activities of patients with lung cancer. The aims are to increase patients' physical activity and improve their fatigue, emotion and quality of life, compared to the control group.
Lung cancer is one of the most common cancer, globally and locally. Patients with lung cancer are in a uniquely challenging situation in their disease, comorbidities, and treatment that may lead to worsened symptoms and many negative health consequences, including fatigue, irritability, and impaired daytime functioning. Physical activity (PA) is defined as 'any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure'. Several health benefits of increased PA have been reported for people with cancer. PA plays a critical role across the cancer trajectory, from prevention through to post-diagnosis and has been proposed as an alternative for improving physical and psychosocial health outcomes, reducing cancer recurrence, and cancer-specific and all-cause mortality. Although there are a variety of exercise intervention programs for cancer patients, those programs were quite intensive, requiring individuals to commit extra time and effort. Most clinicians underutilise exercise therapy, regardless of its low-cost way to improve symptoms and potential health outcomes. Feeling of overwhelmed appointments, lack of time, other barriers, including high cost and limited access to facilities are the most frequently reported barriers that prevent people from starting and maintaining exercise. Low motivation, fear to exercise, lack of knowledge about benefits are the most common barriers of engaging in physical activity for cancer patients. Hence, the current proposal is to use a brief messaging lifestyle modification intervention program to incorporating simple and easy-to-do patient-centred home-based lifestyle-integrated exercise (light to moderate physical activity) into daily activities of patients with lung cancer. The investigators hypothesised that patients in the experimental group would display significantly higher increases in physical activity and improvements in fatigue, emotion and quality of life, compared to the control group. The objectives are to examine the short-term clinical effects on impacts on fatigue, emotion and quality of life in patients with lung cancer, and to evaluate the feasibility of a brief lifestyle-integrated exercise program to increase physical activity by a pilot study with objective fitness and subjective questionnaire assessment, and focus group interviews.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
32
The experimental group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package of instant messages related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity. The lifestyle-integrated exercise is modified from Zero-time exercise. It focuses on four exercise domains that patients with lung cancer could be done at home, including breathing, balance, aerobic, strength, stretching exercises
The control group will receive a face-to-face group session and a package healthy living instant messages, but not related to lifestyle-integrated exercise and physical activity.
Agnes
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
RECRUITINGQueen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
RECRUITINGChange in fatigue level at 6 weeks
measured by Brief Fatigue Inventory
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in physical activity at 6 weeks
measured by International Physical Assessment Questionnaire - Short version
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in health-related quality of life at 6 weeks
measured by European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer and lung module questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in functional level at 6 weeks
measured by Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy - Lung (FACT-L) questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in anxiety and depression symptoms at 6 weeks
measured by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Each item is answered on a 4-point scale (0-3). The scores for the seven questions on depression are added together to obtain a score ranged from 0 to 21. The higher score the more depressed. The scores for the seven questions on anxiety are added together to obtain a score ranged from 0 to 21. The higher score the more anxiety.
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in insomnia level at 6 weeks
measured by Insomnia Severity Index
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in sleep quality at 6 weeks
measured by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in excessive daytime sleepiness at 6 weeks
measured by Epworth Sleepiness Scale. It is a scale of increasing probability from 0 to 3 for eight different situations that most people engage in during their daily lives, though not necessarily every day. The scores for the eight questions are added together to obtain a score ranged from 0 to 24. The higher score the more sleepiness.
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in activity level at 6 weeks
measured by fitbits
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in hand grips strength at 6 weeks
measured by a dynamometer
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in lower limb strength at 6 weeks
assessed by using a 30-second chair stand test to record the number of stands from chair in 30 seconds
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in balance at 6 weeks
assessed by a single-leg-stance test by recording the time within which the individual could effectively achieve balance on one leg
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in flexibility at 6 weeks
assessed by chair sit and reach test
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
Change in endurance at 6 weeks
assessed by 6-minute walk
Time frame: Baseline and 6 weeks
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