Clinical trial · Interventional
The Effect of Walking Intervention on Sleep Related Symptom Distress in Pediatric Oncology Patients
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Specific aims: Control group(2010/1\~2011/6)： Aim 1: Describe the patterns of "fatigue, sleep disturbance, and pain" in children with cancer from perspectives of children and their parents over the course of one cycle (five days) of inpatient chemotherapy (CXT). Aim 2: Determine, at various time points (during they are hospitalization various four times), the associations between fatigue, sleep disturbance, and pain over the course of four cycles (there are five days in each cycle) of CTX in children with cancer. Aim 3: Examine the associations between a symptom cluster of fatigue, sleep disturbance, pain, child reported Quality of Life for Children with Cancer (QOLCC), parent reported uncertainty and QOL, and biomarkers over the course of four cycles of CXT in children with cancer. Intervention group(2011/7\~2012/12)： Aim 4: To test an intervention program (two 20-minute sessions of walking around the nurse's station daily, five days a cycle) to reduce the symptoms of fatigue and pain and increase quality of sleep.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childhood Cancer | Childhood Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| walking | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- OTHER
- label
- Lifestyle counseling
- description
- To test an intervention program (two 20-minute sessions of walking around the nurse's station daily, five days a cycle) to reduce the symptoms of fatigue and pain and increase quality of sleep.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: walking
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Sleep quality
- timeFrame
- During subjects are hospitalization various four times, and there are five days in each period
- description
- The investigators measure the outcome by actigraph and questionnaire.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 10 Years
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * are aged 10 to 18 years * diagnosed with cancer * prescribed CTX * are not receiving concomitant radiation * have not undergone bone marrow transplantation. Exclusion Criteria: * patients with central nervous system tumors will be ineligible because sleep problems have been associated with brain injury. * besides, patients with osteosarcoma and bone metastasis will not be recruited because they may have troubles with walking.
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