The exercise programming preferences and activity levels of cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment

Abstract

The study indicates that a significant proportion of cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy want information, counselling and support regarding exercise and exercise programming.

Adolescents and young adult cancer survivors: exercise habits, quality of life and physical activity preferences

“…There was a significant reduction in the proportion of participants exercising during treatment, and these findings have been reported previously [23,24]. Although physical activity increased post-treatment, the total time spent exercising remained significantly lower than prediagnosis activity for the sample involved in this study (Fig.…”

“…Lack of physical activity may place AYA at increased risk for poor disease outcomes along In terms of exercise programming preferences, 68 % of AYAs in this sample were interested in completing a targeted exercise programme, preferring to start the programme posttreatment (62 %) with a home-based exercise programme identified as the preferred type. This sentiment has been reported previously [23,24]. Exercise programmes for oncology patients are often designed to be run in a group environment either during treatment or post-treatment because they are considered more cost-and time-effective.…”

“…Together, items provided a subjective measure of physical activity (frequency, duration and types) before diagnosis, during primary treatment and at questionnaire completion (i.e. after primary treatment) [23][24][25] and assessed the impact of a cancer diagnosis and treatment on participants' ability to exercise, whether participants had received exercise information and their interest in receiving such information. Items also assessed preferences regarding the timing of commencement of a potential exercise intervention (before, during or after treatment), the type of programme participants would like to undertake and the preferred location of the programme.…”

Development of a computer-tailored physical activity intervention for prostate and colorectal cancer patients and survivors: OncoActive

“…In order to increase understanding and motivation of prostate and colorectal CPS towards PA, it is important to inform them about the benefits of PA as attitude is an important predictor of intention for PA [7, 34, 68, 77, 104]. Prove positive effects of PA during and after cancer treatment were identified by a systematic search of the literature and are listed in Table 3 Positive effects include improvements in both physical and mental aspects of health, as well as tertiary prevention of other chronic diseases [7, 19, 56, 60, 105–109].…”

“…The majority prefers an unsupervised, home-based PA program, with walking as the preferred exercise mode [21, 34, 36, 38]. However, currently most PA programs in the Netherlands are hospital/healthcare-based, supervised exercise programs, aimed at sports.…”