Interventions for promoting habitual exercise in people living with and beyond cancer.

Abstract

Liam (2018) Interventions for promoting habitual exercise in people living with and beyond cancer. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (9).

Supervised physical exercise improves VO2max, quality of life, and health in early stage breast cancer patients: a randomized controlled trial

“…First and foremost, our study was developed and designed as an easy to follow and a low-cost intervention, which translated into high adherence and attendance. Second, the proposed intervention used in our study is highly transferable to pragmatic implementation in clinical settings due to the capacity to personalize exercise sessions and activities, something that has been observed as an important factor to increase exercise adherence [11,29]. Other previous studies have carried out controlled intervention developed in lab conditions, which are usually planed as one to one and low motivation activities [30].…”

“…These interventions look for high-quality data but are not transferable and reproducible in clinical environment. However, our intervention shows that variables can be controlled using a motivating methodology based on the participant necessities [11], mixing resistance, and endurance activities with low-cost material and creating a transferable and reproducible methodology in the hospitals and medical centers. Of high importance, at 6-month follow-up, approximately 80 % of patients were still performing 150 min of moderate exercise per week, which meets the ACSM recommendation at least for aerobic exercise.…”

“…Further, access and pragmatic implementation of exercise for this patient group may be difficult depending on available facilities and expertise. Finally, the persistence of benefits of exercise interventions in cancer survivors has been questioned [11] necessitating trials with longer term follow-up.…”

“…However, body fat mass percentage and lean mass returned to baseline, which suggests that high levels of physical activity or high intensity exercise may be necessary to maintain body composition improvements. Only a small number of studies have followed up exercise intervention achievements in cancer patients [11], suggesting that more follow-up studies are needed to design effective interventions to restore physical status of breast cancer survivors after treatments. In addition, changes in QoL were maintained after 6-month follow-up, which suggest that an integrative intervention could be effective to reduce physical and psychological side effects in a lasting way.…”

Fighting Inactivity to Improve Health: A Short Commentary

“…These devises may be helpful tools to increase the level of physical activity [33]. Self-monitoring is shown to be one of several factors important to drive changes at the individual level [34] as it increases the individual's personal responsibility, promote independence, and makes it possible to create individual pathways toward goal achievement by taking an active role [33]. To encourage the use of these novel technologies as an aid for behavioral changes in physical activity levels and sedentary behavior seems to be warranted, both at individual level and on a larger scale.…”