Effects of Activity and Education Program on Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Effects of Personalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education Program on Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Infection

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01572233

Enrollment

300

Registered

2012-04-06

Start date

2011-12-31

Completion date

2018-06-30

Last updated

2012-12-27

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Conditions

Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Response to Therapy of

Keywords

Fatigue,Physical Activity,Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALPersonalized Physical Activity and Psycho-Education (PPAPE) Program

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.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Infection Receiving Interferon Therapy * Aged above 18

Exclusion criteria

* None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Effects of Activity and Education Program on Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Infection	4-year project	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.

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactSiow-ching Shun, PhD

scshun@ntu.edu.tw886-2-23123456

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026