Muscle Wasting in Children and Adolescents With Cancer

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Specific aims, year by year The aim for Year 1 is as follows: Aim 1: To explore parents' experience of caring for promoting a child's exercise among parents of children and adolescents with cancer. The aims for Year 2 are as follows: Aim 2-1: To examine the associations between the degree of muscle ...

Specific aims, year by year The aim for Year 1 is as follows: Aim 1: To explore parents' experience of caring for promoting a child's exercise among parents of children and adolescents with cancer. The aims for Year 2 are as follows: Aim 2-1: To examine the associations between the degree of muscle wasting and health-related variables (fatigue level, symptom distress level, physical activity involvement, dietary intake, and QoL) among children and adolescents with cancer. Aim 2-2: To examine the trends of changes in muscle wasting and health-related variables (fatigue level, symptom distress level, physical activity involvement, dietary intake, and QoL) during the first 6 months of cancer treatment among children and adolescents with cancer. The aim for Year 3 is as follows: Aim 3: To examine the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary approach with a personalized walking exercise program on changes in body composition and health-related variables (fatigue level, symptom distress level, subjective physical activity involvement, objective physical activity measurement, dietary intake, and QoL) among children and adolescents with cancer.

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