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Prehabilitation Education for Bone Marrow Transplant (IMPROVE-BMT Trial)

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Led By Kathryn Schmitz, PhD

Research Sponsored by Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up through study completion, an average of 18 months

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IMPROVE-BMT Trial Summary

This trial will test whether a home-based exercise program or just an educational session can help patients before they start treatment.

Eligible Conditions

Bone Marrow Transplant
Blood Diseases
Physical Activity
Prehabilitation

IMPROVE-BMT Trial Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ through study completion, an average of 18 months

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~through study completion, an average of 18 months

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and through study completion, an average of 18 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Acceptability of the exercise intervention: more than 50% of the patients approached

Feasibility of the exercise intervention: 50% of included patients actually complete at least one third of the exercise sessions

Safety of the exercise intervention: questionnaire

Secondary outcome measures

Aerobic Capacity: Six Minute Walk Test

Body Pain: Brief Pain Inventory- Short form

Bone Marrow Transplant-related Quality of Life: EORTC QLQ-HDC29

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IMPROVE-BMT Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Active Control

Group I: Prehabilitation EducationActive Control1 Intervention

Will be offered a prehabilitation and stem cell education class at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute.

Group II: Home-Based PrehabilitationActive Control1 Intervention

Will be offered an individual one-on-one appointment for an exercise introduction session with an exercise and cancer specialist and periodical phone calls to support and adapt the exercise program. The exercises should be done home-based for 5 times a week until the time of transplant.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterLead Sponsor

492 Previous Clinical Trials

2,798,738 Total Patients Enrolled

Kathryn Schmitz, PhDPrincipal Investigator - Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

10 Previous Clinical Trials

1,632 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Is enrollment open for this investigation currently?

"Data on clinicaltrials.gov confirms that this medical trial is currently in recruitment mode, starting from June 28th 2019 and having had its last update on March 18th 2022."

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What is the current enrollment status of this clinical research?

"Affirmative. Clinicaltrials.gov documents that this trial is actively seeking candidates since it was first unveiled on June 28th 2019 and most recently updated on March 18th 2022. This experiment needs 84 people to be recruited from a single centre."

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What is the main purpose of this clinical experiment?

"The primary target of this research, which will be monitored over an approximate 18-month stretch, is to have at least 50% of the approached patients accept the exercise intervention. Secondary objectives include assessing Health-related Quality of Life (EORTC QLQ-C30), Physical Function (Timed-Up-and Go Test), and Bone Marrow Transplant related quality of life (EORTC QLQ - HDC29). All these scales range from 0 to 100, with a high score indicating higher response levels for functional scale or global health status/QLo scores but more symptomatology/problems in case"

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Impact of Prehabilitation in Oncology Via Exercise- Bone Marrow Transplant

Shin Mineishi 2019. "Impact of Prehabilitation in Oncology Via Exercise- Bone Marrow Transplant". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03886909.