Esophageal Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasm
Conditions
Brief summary
This study plans to investigate the effectiveness of six-week light exposure combined with an exercise training program on improving sleep-wake rhythm, physical and mental symptoms, quality of life, one-year recurrence rate, and one-year survival rate of patients with lung and esophageal cancer.
Detailed description
This study plans to investigate the effectiveness of six-week light exposure combined with an exercise training program on improving sleep-wake rhythm, physical and mental symptoms, quality of life, one-year recurrence rate, and one-year survival rate of patients with lung and esophageal cancer. Two groups, parallel, randomly assigned clinical trials, long-term follow-up, repeated measurement (pre-test, 6th week, 12th week, 6th month, 12th month, five times in total), and a design of single center recruitment. The experimental group receiving an intervention comprised six weeks of light exposure combined with exercise training. The active control group receiving six weeks of stretching exercise. With a double-blind study design of participant blind and outcomes assessor blind, subjects were recruited from the thoracic surgery clinic and thoracic surgery ward of a medical center in northern Taiwan.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDaylight exposure combine walking
1. Out-door of bright-light exposure in the morning (36 min/day, 7 times/week) for six weeks. 2. Tailored to the individual patient with moderate intensity of walking (3 sessions/week) for six weeks. Duration of each session depends on one-on-one exercise consultation via communication software (LINE App). The duration of walking in week 1 is 15 minutes, then increasing 5 minutes each week if the patient has tolerance. If the patient cannot tolerate the duration, the coach will instruct to keep the same duration for the following week. Basically, the goal of duration in week six is 40 minutes. 3. Weekly exercise consultation via communication software (LINE App). 4. Teaching strategy includes one-on one instruction (hard-copy of teaching manual), video, and webpage.
BEHAVIORALStretching exercise
The stretching exercise includes two movements for the upper body and two movements for the lower body, 10 minutes each time, three times a week, for 6 weeks. The researcher will explain to the participants about how to perform the stretching exercise, according to an instruction manual (hardcopy) for the exercise regimen. A video is shown to the participants (the content same as hardcopy of education manual).
Sponsors
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer or esophageal cancer, from the first stage to the third stage. 2. At least 20 years of age. 3. Able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese or Taiwanese. 4. Literate and free from cognitive disabilities. 5. The attending physician agrees to participate in the study. 6. Those who can connect to the Internet with mobile devices such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets, or those whose family members can assist in the operation. 7. Those with Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) greater than or equal to 70 points. 8. Those who are hospitalized for lung cancer or esophageal cancer lesion resection.
Exclusion criteria
1. Congestive heart failure. 2. Orthopedic diseases of the lower extremities that limit one's walking ability.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sleep-wake rhythm | Baseline | Using Actigraph to measure sleep-wake rhythm. The parameter including 24-h correlation coefficient(r24), in bed less than out of bed dichotomy index (I \< O), midline estimating statistic of rhythm (MESOR), and amplitude…etc. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Subjective sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) | Baseline | The scale consists of 19 questions covering collective sleep quality, sleep latency, total sleep hours, sleep habits, sleep disturbance, use of sleeping drugs, and daytime functioning. The PSQI score is calculated from the above seven facets. The score of each facet was 0-3 points, and the total score was 0-21 points. A score greater than 5 indicates that the total quality of sleep is poor. |
| Objective sleep quality: total sleep time | Baseline | Using actigraph to measure total sleep time (min/night) |
| Objective sleep quality: sleep onset latency | Baseline | Using actigraph to measure sleep onset latency (min/night) |
| Objective sleep quality: sleep efficiency | Baseline | Using actigraph to measure sleep efficiency (percentage) |
| Objective sleep quality: wake after sleep onset | Baseline | Using actigraph to measure wake after sleep onset (min/night) |
| Anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS) | Baseline | The scale consists of seven items each for anxiety and depression. Each item of the anxiety subscale (HADS-A) and the depression subscale (HADS-D) was scored on a 4-point scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (very much so). Higher scores indicated higher anxiety or depression levels. |
| Quality of life (European Organization for Research and Treatment of cancer quality of life questionnaire) | Baseline | This questionnaire measures the general quality of life of cancer patients. There are 30 questions in total, including questions on physical functioning (5 questions), role function (2 questions), emotional functioning (4 questions),and cognitive functioning (2 questions), as well as, overall quality of life and health status (2 questions). And common symptoms such as fatigue (3 questions), pain (2 questions), nausea and vomiting (2 questions), dyspnea, insomnia, loss of appetite, constipation, diarrhea, and financial problems (one question each). |
| Recurrent rate | 12th month after recruitment | Chart review to determine whether cancer has recurred for participant one year after diagnosis. |
| Survival rate | 12th month after recruitment | Chart review to determine whether participant survived one year after diagnosis. |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
CONTACTHui-Mei Chen, PhD
CONTACTMei-Fen Dai, MSN
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORHui-Mei Chen, PhD
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Outcome results
None listed