Improving Health-Promoting Behaviors in Adolescent Cancer Survivors Using AWAKE: A Feasibility Trial



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Healthy Studies
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:13 - 17
Updated:6/27/2018
Start Date:June 20, 2018
End Date:February 2021
Contact:Karen Effinger, MD, MS
Email:karen.effinger@emory.edu
Phone:404-785-2526

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A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE)
focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors
in survivors of young adult cancer. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform
into an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in
order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to
generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of
the AWAKE platform in this population.

A behavioral intervention called Achieving Wellness After Kancer in Early Life (AWAKE)
focused on increasing hope in order to improve quality of life and health-promoting behaviors
in survivors of young adult cancer. Adaptation of this intervention to incorporate messaging
for adolescents and their guardians has the potential to have a long-term impact on
adolescent cancer survivors. The goals of this project are to adapt the AWAKE platform into
an intervention acceptable for use in adolescent cancer survivors and their guardians in
order to improve survivors' hope, quality of life, and health-promoting behaviors, and to
generate the preliminary data needed for a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of
the AWAKE platform in this population.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Early survivor: 3 months to 2 years after therapy completion

- Long-term survivor: ≥2 years after therapy completion

- 13-17 years of age

- Access to tablet or smartphone and internet

Exclusion Criteria:

- Cognitive delay that would preclude participation

- Participant or designated guardian unable to read English

- Active disease relapse
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1405 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
404-785-6000
Phone: 404-785-2526
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