Digital Home-Based Prehabilitation Before Surgery

Launched by VESTRE VIKEN HOSPITAL TRUST · Jan 26, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is studying how two different prehabilitation programs can help patients prepare for major colorectal cancer surgery. Prehabilitation refers to the activities and support offered before surgery to improve a patient's strength and overall health. In this trial, one group will receive a program that includes guided physical exercise, nutritional support, help with quitting smoking, and adjustments to their medications, while the other group will not have any structured prehabilitation.

To be eligible for this trial, participants must be planning to have major gastrointestinal cancer surgery, speak and understand Norwegian, and be able to complete questionnaires. However, individuals who cannot walk for six minutes, have certain heart or lung conditions, or live too far from the hospital may not qualify. Participants can expect to be involved in a supportive program aimed at helping them be as healthy as possible before their surgery, which may lead to better recovery outcomes.

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Planned for major gastrointestinal cancer surgery
• • Fluent in Norwegian and able to consent and to understand questionnaires
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Inability to walk for six minutes or to rise independently from a chair
• • Inability to comprehend exercise program or to comply with written and oral instructions
• • Presence of a cardio-pulmonary condition that precludes exercise
• • Living in very remote areas making a hospital-based intervention group impossible to implement
• • Being without a permanent address
• • Admittance to a hospital facility for \> 50% of the time from diagnosis to surgery