Digital Home-Based Prehabilitation Before Surgery
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorVestre Viken Hospital Trust
About this trial
This clinical trial compares two different prehabilitation programs, with no organized prehabilitation, prior to major colorectal cancer surgery. The prehabilitation programs include intensive and coached physical exercise and optimized nutritional intake coupled with smoking cessation, physiological support and correction of poly-pharmacy.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Planned for major gastrointestinal cancer surgery
Fluent in Norwegian and able to consent and to understand questionnaires
Disqualifiers
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
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Prehabilitation
Treatment groups
140 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsLocations
Sponsors and collaborators
Vestre Viken Hospital Trust
Lead sponsor
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov