Scalable TELeheaLth Cancer CARe: The STELLAR Program to Treat Cancer Risk Behaviors

Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to improve cancer patient's health, survival, and quality of life by dispelling risk behaviors for Northwestern Memorial Health Care (NMHC) patients who are cancer survivors. The main question\[s\] STELLAR aims to answer are: * How best to combine three behavior interventions (physical activity promotion, smoking cessation, obesity treatment) into one treatment. * Evaluate the reach of the program. We will look at the number, proportion, and representativeness of participants in terms of disease characteristics, socioeconomic status, telehealth readiness, and race/ethnicity. * Evaluate the effects of the STELLAR program relative to enhanced usual care (information provision) on cancer risk behaviors, patient care access, care quality, and communication. Participants will be provided goals related to their physical activity, smoking, and/or weight loss and asked to track their health behaviors via an app, excel file, or on paper. At baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months into the study, participants will provide survey responses and physical measurements like height and weight. Additionally, those in the Facilitated group will complete 12 telehealth sessions with study staff to discuss progress towards their study goals. Researchers will compare the Facilitated group to the Self Guided group to see if the Facilitated intervention group is able to reach more participants that enhances care only.

Conditions

Obesity, Smoking Cessation, Physical Inactivity

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to improve cancer patient's health, survival, and quality of life by dispelling risk behaviors for Northwestern Memorial Health Care (NMHC) patients who are cancer survivors. The main question\[s\] STELLAR aims to answer are: * How best to combine three behavior interventions (physical activity promotion, smoking cessation, obesity treatment) into one treatment. * Evaluate the reach of the program. We will look at the number, proportion, and representativeness of participants in terms of disease characteristics, socioeconomic status, telehealth readiness, and race/ethnicity. * Evaluate the effects of the STELLAR program relative to enhanced usual care (information provision) on cancer risk behaviors, patient care access, care quality, and communication. Participants will be provided goals related to their physical activity, smoking, and/or weight loss and asked to track their health behaviors via an app, excel file, or on paper. At baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months into the study, participants will provide survey responses and physical measurements like height and weight. Additionally, those in the Facilitated group will complete 12 telehealth sessions with study staff to discuss progress towards their study goals. Researchers will compare the Facilitated group to the Self Guided group to see if the Facilitated intervention group is able to reach more participants that enhances care only.

Scalable TELeheaLth Cancer CARe: The STELLAR Program to Treat Cancer Risk Behaviors

Scalable TELeheaLth Cancer CARe: The STELLAR Program to Treat Cancer Risk Behaviors

Condition
Obesity
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Northwestern Medicine patient
  • * Over 18 years old
  • * Meet at least 1 of the following 3 criteria:
  • * Engage in \<150 min/week of physical activity
  • * BMI of ≥25
  • * Report that they currently smoke or smoked within the last year
  • * Diagnosed with any cancer (except non-melanoma skin)
  • * Ability to attend telehealth visits either via landline, cell phone, smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer
  • * 3 months post curative intent treatment if BMI of ≥25 or engage in \<150 min/week of physical activity
  • * Post curative intent treatment if they currently smoke or smoked within the last year
  • * Currently in another dietary, weight loss, smoking cessation (including cessation pharmacotherapy), or physical activity treatment/intervention.
  • * Limited level of oral and written English or Spanish
  • * Cognitively impaired adults
  • * Prisoners
  • * Participants will be excluded from the physical activity and weight loss interventions (but not the smoking cessation component) for:
  • * Absolute contraindications to exercise (i.e., acute myocardial infarction, complete heart block, acute congestive heart failure, unstable angina, uncontrolled hypertension), metastatic disease or planned elective surgery
  • * Pregnant or plans to become pregnant.
  • * Individuals engaging in the physical activity or weight loss interventions must pass pre- physical activity participation screening or obtain medical clearance

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Northwestern University,

Brian Hitsman, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Northwestern University

Sofia Garcia, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Northwestern University

Siobhan Phillips, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Northwestern University

Bonnie Spring, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Florida State University

Study Record Dates

2027-07