Understanding and Improving Quality of Life Through a Wireless Activity Tracker: Observational Phase

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This project attempts to correlate wireless activity data with quality of life and sleep surveys in order to find a new method of monitoring patients during their treatment.

Detailed Description
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This project proposes the investigation, validation, and use of a wireless activity tracker to better understand and improve the quality of life of patients suffering from brain tumors. The Fitbit flex wireless syncing activity tracker will be distributed to 75 patients, and the electronic infrastructure to automatically track patients will be created and adapted for the cohort. Surveys will routinely assess the ease-of-use and any problems arising. This heterogenous population of patients suffering from brain tumors will be tracked and compared through routine evaluation of their quality of life through well-established surveys, including the SF-36 and FACT-Br. The association between data recorded from the activity tracker and the QOL surveys will be quantified to validate the activity tracking data as a surrogate measure of part, if not all, of QOL as well as sleep.

Official Title
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Understanding and Improving Quality of Life Through a Wireless Activity Tracker: Observational Phase

Conditions
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Brain Tumor

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: diagnosed with primary or metastatic brain tumor able to wear wireless activity tracker able to complete QOL and sleep surveys every 3 months Exclusion Criteria: unable to provide consent age < 18 lack of use of the wireless activity tracker for more than 2 consecutive months

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 99 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit<br>Patients with brain tumor(s) will be give a wireless activity tracker (fitbit flex) to use during treatment. They will complete quality of life surveys and a sleep survey. | Device: Wireless Activity tracker: Fitbit<br>* Patients will wear a Fitbit flex<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Activity measured in steps |  | 1 year delineated by minute | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sleep | wireless activity will attempt to monitor sleep cycles when the device is worn | per night over 1 year | 
| Quality of Life - SF-36 | SF-36 | months 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 | 
| Quality of Life - Fact- Br | Fact-Br | months 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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fitbit, activity tracker, sleep, quality of life