Effects of Bright-light Exposure Combined With Specific Exercise Training (BEST) Program in Patients With Cancer
Effects of Bright-light Exposure Combined With Specific Exercise Training (BEST) Program on Sleep-Wake Rhythm, Physical and Psychological Symptoms, and Quality of Life of Patients With Thoracic Cancer: A Series Study.
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
200 participants
Jul 24, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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.
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Interventions
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.
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).
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NCT05875870