Study of a Combined Nutrition and Exercise Program for Adult Cancer Survivors with Overweight or Obesity to Improve Sleep, Stress, and Immune Health

What this Trial Is About

This research aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a comprehensive lifestyle intervention for cancer survivors who are overweight or obese and have completed active treatment. The study focuses on improving nutrition, exercise, sleep health, and stress management by integrating two programs the BfedBwell survivorship nutrition program and the BfitBwell clinical exercise oncology program. It also explores preliminary changes in sleep quality, perceived stress, and biomarkers related to stress and immune function. Participants will undergo a 6-month single-arm intervention combining nutrition education, individual counseling, behavioral skills development, group support, and the use of wearable technology and smart scales to monitor physical activity, sleep, and body weight. The exercise component includes supervised sessions led by a cancer exercise specialist based on established physical activity guidelines for cancer survivors. The nutrition program involves group education, 11 dietitian counseling, cooking demonstrations, and behavioral techniques. During the study, participants will attend weekly group education and support sessions, monthly behavioral skills and counseling sessions, and up to two exercise sessions per week initially, tapering to once monthly supervised and weekly virtual sessions in the later 12 weeks. Researchers will assess recruitment, adherence, retention, and acceptability of the intervention over 24 weeks. They will also measure changes in sleep quality and perceived stress at baseline, 12 weeks, and 24 weeks to evaluate the interventions impact.

BfedBwell INSPIRE Pilot