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dc.contributor.authorHawkes, Anna L
dc.contributor.authorPakenham, Kenneth I
dc.contributor.authorCourneya, Kerry S
dc.contributor.authorGollschewski, Sara
dc.contributor.authorBaade, Peter
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Louisa G
dc.contributor.authorLynch, Brigid M
dc.contributor.authorAitken, Joanne F
dc.contributor.authorChambers, Suzanne K
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:49:35Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:49:35Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2012-02-10T01:45:21Z
dc.identifier.issn1471-2407
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2407-9-286
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30401
dc.description.abstractBackground Colorectal cancer survivors may suffer from a range of ongoing psychosocial and physical problems that negatively impact on quality of life. This paper presents the study protocol for a novel telephone-delivered intervention to improve lifestyle factors and health outcomes for colorectal cancer survivors. Methods/Design Approximately 350 recently diagnosed colorectal cancer survivors will be recruited through the Queensland Cancer Registry and randomised to the intervention or control condition. The intervention focuses on symptom management, lifestyle and psychosocial support to assist participants to make improvements in lifestyle factors (physical activity, healthy diet, weight management, and smoking cessation) and health outcomes. Participants will receive up to 11 telephone-delivered sessions over a 6 month period from a qualified health professional or 'health coach'. Data collection will occur at baseline (Time 1), post-intervention or six months follow-up (Time 2), and at 12 months follow-up for longer term effects (Time 3). Primary outcome measures will include physical activity, cancer-related fatigue and quality of life. A cost-effective analysis of the costs and outcomes for survivors in the intervention and control conditions will be conducted from the perspective of health care costs to the government. Discussion The study will provide valuable information about an innovative intervention to improve lifestyle factors and health outcomes for colorectal cancer survivors.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom286-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto286-8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBMC Cancer
dc.relation.ispartofvolume9
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOncology and carcinogenesis
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3211
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode321199
dc.titleA randomised controlled trial of a tele-based lifestyle intervention for colorectal cancer survivors ('CanChange'): study protocol
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
gro.description.notepublicPage numbers are not for citation purposes. Instead, this article has the unique article number of 9:286.
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Hawkes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorChambers, Suzanne K.


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