Prostate Cancer Survivors and Exercise and Behavioral Counseling (BOOST)
Physical Activity, Cancer of the Prostate, Cognitive Impairment
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Physical Activity focused on measuring Behavior change, Prostate cancer, Behavioral counseling, Physical Activity, Randomized controlled trial
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- ≥18 years and older
- Histologically confirmed prostate cancer (Stage I-IIIa) but now cured or in remission
- Ability and willingness to effectively communicate in English
- Not meeting physical activity guidelines of ≥150 minutes of vigorous physical activity
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe coronary artery disease (Canadian Cardiovascular Society class III or greater)
- Significant congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association class III or greater)
- Uncontrolled pain
- Neurological or musculoskeletal co-morbidity inhibiting exercise
- Diagnosed psychotic, addictive or major cognitive disorders
- Absent for more than 3 consecutive days during the 12-week intervention
- High risk individuals (i.e., men who have symptomatic and known cardiovascular, pulmonary and/or metabolic disease) as determined by the risk stratification questionnaire
Sites / Locations
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Supervised PA Plus Behavioral Counseling
Supervised PA Plus Exercise Counseling
25 prostate cancer survivors will receive supervised physical activity and behavioral counseling (SPA+BC) based on the M-PAC. In addition to supervised physical activity, behavioral counseling sessions will be delivered with a PA specialist based on the Multi-process Action Control (M-PAC) framework and include behavior change techniques addressing information regarding the consequences, social support, goal setting, self-monitoring, cues and prompts, barrier identification, intention formation, planning, and habit and identity formation
25 prostate cancer survivors will supervised physical activity and exercise counseling (SPA+EC).In addition to the supervised exercise sessions, standard exercise counseling will be delivered by a PA specialist to teach proper PA and resistance training techniques, how to monitor intensity, and to progress PA safely and effectively to achieve the public health PA guideline.