Post-operative Recovery Exercise Programme using Yoga (PREPY)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The impact of an exercise intervention (Yoga) on the recovery of patients who have undergone a lung resection for lung cancer
IRAS ID
187917
Contact name
Katy Clarke
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 0 days
Research summary
Non small cell lung remains one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide with 1.8 million people being newly diagnosed in 2012. With the advancement of new treatment techniques in the field of both surgery and radiotherapy the outcomes continue to improve and with this the number of long term survivors. This means that any potential toxicities caused by these treatments have increasing importance because of the potential long term impact they can have on a patients quality of life and subsequent development of comorbidity. With the increasing evidence of a benefit of exercise in other cancers following curative treatment and smaller studies showing some benefit in quality of life in lung cancer we wanted to look at a specific exercise intervention which could impact on our lung cancer survivors. Yoga can focus on building physical fitness and lung capacity together with psychological control of the body and managing anxiety and appears to be an intervention that may help this particular group of patients. We plan to tie this intervention in with our newly developed lung cancer survivorship programme which was established in April 2014. Every patient who attends the Survivorship Clinic completes the validated Quality of Life tool (validated EORTC QLQ-C30 and LC13) and Health Needs Assessment. We plan to run a feasibility study aiming to assess the issues around using yoga as an exercise intervention in post operative patients who have undergone surgery for lung cancer.
We aim to recruit 10 patients in total. Patients will undergo a 6 week course of hourly yoga sessions commencing 12-16 weeks following surgical resection. Outcomes will be monitored using patient questionnaires focusing on quality of life, anxiety and depression scores, patient feedback and breathing scores. Other outcomes measures include reassessment of pulmonary function testing and functional scoring at intervals throughout.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/YH/0509
Date of REC Opinion
18 Dec 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion