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Register: German Clinical Trials Register
Last refreshed on: 8 April 2024
Main ID:  DRKS00008022
Date of registration: 17/04/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Verein zur Förderung der Rehabilitationsforschung e.V. Norderney
Public title: Fatigue Management in the oncological rehabilitation (FaM): Development and evaluation of trainings and aftercare modules for the coping of the cancer-related fatigue
Scientific title: Fatigue Management in the oncological rehabilitation (FaM): Development and evaluation of trainings and aftercare modules for the coping of the cancer-related fatigue - FaM
Date of first enrolment: 03/05/2015
Target sample size: 320
Recruitment status: Complete
URL:  http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00008022
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-randomized controlled study; Masking: Open (masking not used); Control: active; Assignment: crossover; Study design purpose: treatment  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Germany
Contacts
Name: Heike    Kähnert
Address:  Alte Vlothoer Straße 1 32105 Bad Salzuflen Germany
Telephone: 05222 186-3367
Email: kaehnert@ifr-norderney.de
Affiliation:  Institut für Rehabilitationsforschung, Norderney; Abt. Bad Salzuflen
Name: Heike    Kähnert
Address:  Alte Vlothoer Straße 1 32105 Bad Salzuflen Germany
Telephone: 05222 186 3367
Email: kaehnert@ifr-norderney.de
Affiliation:  Institut für Rehabilitationsforschung, Norderney; Abt. Bad Salzuflen
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with a malignant tumor (ICD10: C50; C81-C96; C51-C58), which are tumour treated

Exclusion criteria: (1) Fatigue Screening: Cut-off < 4 (measuring instrument: numeric rating scale NCCN, 2014)
(2) Advanced tumor / palliative situation
(3) Adjuvante chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy is not concluded yet
(4) Insufficient German knowledge



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
G93.3
Postviral fatigue syndrome
Cancer-related fatigue of patients (ICD10: C50; C81-C96; C51-C58)
G93.3
Intervention(s)
Group 1: Control group: The study participants receive the clinic program (usual care). The participants obtain written brief informations (promotion of a healthy life style) at the end of the rehabilitation and one and four months after discharge in each case.
Group 2: Intervention group: The study participants take part in the clinic program (usual care) and additionally in the education programm „fatigue-management“. They receive personalized aftercare documents (also for the physician) at the end of the rehabilitation. In this case an action diary is used as an aftercare measure after one and four months of discharge.
Primary Outcome(s)
Measuring time: at the beginning, at the end, three and six months after the rehabilitation:
multidimensional fatigue inventary (measuring instrument MFI; Smets 1995)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Measuring time: at the beginning of the rehabilitation, 3 and 6 months after discharge:
1. Restriction of social participation (measuring instrument IMET, Deck et al., 2007);
2. The functional capability in occupation (measuring instrument IRES-3; Bührlen et al. 2005);
3. Quality of life (measuring instrument EORTC-QLQ-C30: Aaronson et al. 1993)
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Verein zur Förderung der Rehabilitationsforschung e.V., Norderney
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 11/03/2015
Contact:
ethik-kommission@aekwl.de
Ethikkommission der Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
+49-251-9292460
ethik-kommission@aekwl.de
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 09/11/2023
Date Completed: 31/07/2017
URL: http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00008022#studyResults
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