Clinical trial NCT05545254: Health-promoting Lifestyle in a Genetic Counseling Clinic
Official title: Health-promoting Lifestyle of Breast Cancer Patients and Family Members in a Chinese Genetic Counseling Clinic: A Cross-sectional Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Breast Cancer
Genetic Testing
Keywords: Health-promoting lifestyle, breast cancer, genetic
Lead sponsor: Fudan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-19
Enrollment: 140
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: In this study, 259 participants were recruited from November 2019 to March 2022. All participants originated from a genetic counseling clinic of a cancer center in Shanghai, China. 259 participants were contact, and among them, 158 participants finally agreed to participate and completed the survey.

Brief summary: This was a cross-seThis was a cross-sectional study, which aimed to describe the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels with different socio-economic variables. 259 patients conformed to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were enrolled. Participants were sent a questionnaire web-link to be invited to finish this survey. 140 participants were finally included in this study. Finally, a good level of health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members was acquired. More education and intervention should be tailored to enhance and encourage health-promoting lifestyle behaviors in participants with low monthly family income. Additionally, developing nutritional curriculum and strengthening the publicity of nutritional popular science were priorities in the future improvement measures.ctional study

Detailed description: Purpose: This study aimed to describe the health-promoting lifestyle of breast cancer patients and family members in a Chinese genetic counseling clinic, and to explore its various levels with different socio-economic variables.

Method: This was a cross-sectional study. The participants in this study originated from a genetic counseling clinic of a cancer center in Shanghai, China. 259 patients conformed to the inclusion and exclusion criteria were screened and contact from November 2019 to March 2022. Participants agreed to participate were sent a questionnaire web-link to be invited to finish this survey. Two questionnaires were included in the link, one referring to the socio-economic information, the other referring to the health-promoting lifestyle. Chinese Health-promoting lifestyle profile-Ⅱ(HPLP-Ⅱ) was used to evaluate the health-promoting lifestyle.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* over 18 years old;
* with a diagnosis of breast cancer or having a family history of breast cancer
* the first time to take genetic testing in our clinic
* ECOG\<2.

Exclusion Criteria:

* diagnosed with psychiatric or intellectual impairment
* having a history of genetic testing previously

Primary outcomes:
measure: Chinese Health-promoting lifestyle profile-Ⅱ
timeFrame: The primary outcome was measured during one month after the genetic test.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Study officials:
affiliation: Fudan University
name: Zhenqi Lu, Master
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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