Behavioral Reinforcement Intervention for Greater Health Trajectories After Childhood Cancer (BRIGHT)

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Conditions studied: Survivors of Childhood Cancer

In brief

Survivors of childhood cancer have a substantially increased risk of long-term health problems in adulthood, including cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, psychological morbidity, and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). These risks are partly related to cancer treatment exposures but are also strongly influenced by modifiable lifestyle factors such as physical activity, diet, body weight, and cardiometabolic risk factors. Although healthy lifestyle behaviors are known to reduce morbidity and mortality in this population, many adult childhood cancer survivors do not meet current lifestyle recommendations and rarely receive structured, tailored support to change health behaviors. The Behavioral Reinforcement Intervention for Greater Health Trajectories (BRIGHT) study aims to evaluate whether a person-centered, remotely delivered lifestyle intervention can improve health-related quality of life and key health markers in adult survivors of childhood cancer with an unhealthy lifestyle. The intervention focuses on increasing physical activity and improving dietary habits through structured video-based coaching delivered by trained health promoters over a 26-week period. BRIGHT is conducted within NOPHO-CARE Sweden, a national population-based cohort of childhood cancer survivors, and uses a register-based randomized controlled design with two randomization steps. First, eligible participants are randomized to be offered the intervention or not, enabling evaluation of the population-level effect of offering the intervention through long-term register-based follow-up. Second, participants who consent to active participation are randomized to immediate or delayed start of the intervention, allowing controlled assessment of short-term intervention effects. The primary research question is whether the BRIGHT lifestyle intervention leads to a clinically meaningful improvement in health-related quality of life, measured by the PROPr utility index derived from PROMIS-29, compared with a control period. Secondary questions address whether the intervention improves physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, diet quality, body weight, blood pressure, and cardiometabolic and biological markers, including epigenetic age acceleration. The study also examines feasibility, adherence, and scalability of delivering a person-centered lifestyle intervention within a national survivorship follow-up structure. In addition, BRIGHT investigates whether offering the intervention to the full eligible population leads to long-term reductions in cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality, using national health registers. By combining individual-level efficacy and population-level effectiveness within a single study framework, BRIGHT aims to generate robust evidence to inform future preventive care and long-term follow-up strategies for adult survivors of childhood cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07384286

Run by

Vastra Gotaland Region

People needed

900

Starts

2026-05-01

Expected to finish

2030-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participant in NOPHO-CARE Sweden
• Performing <150 min moderate-vigorous physical activity per week and/or body mass index 28-35.

You may not qualify if…

• Pre-existing diagnosis of heart failure or coronary artery disease
• Uncontrolled hypertension, defined as >180/100 mmHg
• Other medical reasons that the intervention or outcome assessments are considered unsafe (as decided by a study physician)
• Inability to perform the intervention or outcome assessments due to lack of mobile device (computer, tablet or telephone) with internet access or language barriers.

Where it is running

• Centrum för livsstilsintervention — Gothenburg, Sweden

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