colon/prostate cancer Malignant neoplasm of colon/prostate
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: -Diagnosed with colon/prostate cancer. -18 years or older -Able to read and speak Dutch -The patient needs to be under primary treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery) for prostate or colon cancer, while the former patients need to have successfully completed the main treatment up to one year ago.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: -Patients with a serious medical, psychiatric, or cognitive disease that would interfere with participation (e.g. Alzheimer*s Disease, and severe obese (BMI>35)). -Any operation must have taken place at least six weeks ago. -Patients in de palliative phase will be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Objective physical activity (accelerometer data) en subjective physical activity, specified to work, ADL, sport and leisure time (SQUASH; Wendel-Vos CGW, Schuit AJ, Saris WHM. Reproducibility and relative validity of the short questionnaire to assess Health Enhancing Physical Activity (SQUASH). J Clin Epid 2003,12,1163-9). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Health related quality of life, psychosocial feelings, fatigue, mental adjustment to cancer, use of health care, appreciation and use of the intervention. | — |
Countries
Netherlands