Fatigue in palliative cancer care: are graded exercise and cognitive behaviour therapy effective treatments and what mediates the treatment response?

Fatigue in palliative cancer care: are graded exercise and cognitive behaviour therapy effective treatments and what mediates the treatment response? - Interventions for fatigued palliative cancer patients

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON37781

Enrollment

219

Registered

2012-07-05

Start date

2013-04-09

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-05-06

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Conditions

cancer malignancy

Interventions

Condition 1: Graded exercise therapy: GET consisting of one weekly sessions of two hours of resistance and aerobic training with a physical therapist during 12 weeks. GET will take place in small gr

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: • Age of 18 or above. • Able to speak, read and write Dutch. • Being severely fatigued without known and treatable somatic causes

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: • Contra-indication for exercise (a physical activity potency of walking six minutes successively is a minimum). • Metastasis in the brain. • Currently receiving treatment for a psychiatric disorder. • Karnofsky scale = 3

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Main endpoint is fatigue severity (primary outcome measure).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
We will also determine if quality of life improves and functional impairments are reduced following the interventions (secondary outcome measures).	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)