Interventions to promote exercise in cancer survivors who report better levels of adherence share some common behaviour change techniques .
These involve setting programme goals , prompting practise and self-monitoring and encouraging participants to attempt to generalise behaviours learned in supervised exercise environments to other , non-supervised context s. However , expecting most sedentary survivors to achieve current guideline recommendations of at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise is likely to be unrealistic .
BACKGROUND The beneficial effects of regular exercise for people living with or beyond cancer are becoming apparent .
However , how to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary cancer cohorts is not as well understood .
A large majority of people living with or recovering from cancer do not meet exercise recommendations .
Hence , review ing the evidence on how to promote and sustain exercise behaviour is important .
OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of interventions to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond cancer and to address the following questions : Which interventions are most effective in improving aerobic fitness and skeletal muscle strength and endurance ?
What adverse effects are attributed to different exercise interventions ?
Which interventions are most effective in improving exercise behaviour amongst patients with different cancers ?
Which interventions are most likely to promote long-term ( 12 months or longer ) exercise behaviour ?
What frequency of contact with exercise professionals is associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What theoretical basis is most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What behaviour change techniques are most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
A randomized trial to promote physical activity among breast cancer patients.
OBJECTIVE  Physical activity ( PA ) has been shown to provide health benefits for breast cancer patients . The effects of augmenting oncology health care provider ( HCP ) advice for PA with 3 months of telephone counseling versus contact control were evaluated in a r and omized trial . METHODS After receiving brief HCP advice to become physically active , 192 women ( age in years : M = 60.0 , SD = 9.9 ) who had completed treatment for Stage 0-IV breast cancer were r and omized to telephone counseling to support PA ( n = 106 ) or contact control ( n = 86 ) . Their PA , motivational readiness , fatigue , and physical functioning were assessed at baseline ( before receiving HCP advice ) , 3 , 6 , and 12 months . RESULTS Telephone counseling produced significant effects on the primary outcome of moderate-intensity PA of about 30 min/week at both 3 months ( 95 % CI = 0.44 , 57.32 ) and 6 months ( 95 % CI = 3.06 , 61.26 ) . Intervention participants were also more than twice as likely as control participants to report improvements in achieving PA guidelines of at least 150 min/week at 3 ( OR = 2.43 , 95 % CI = 1.18 , 4.98 ) and 6 months ( OR = 2.11 , 95 % CI = 1.00 - 4.48 ) . Telephone counseling was significantly more effective than contact control in increasing motivational readiness for PA at all follow-ups ( ORs = 3.93 - 6.28 , all ps < .003 ) . No between-groups differences were found for fatigue , while differential improvements in physical functioning did not remain significant past 3 months ( p = .01 ) . CONCLUSION HCP advice plus telephone counseling improved PA among breast cancer patients at 3 and 6 months and also differentially improved patients ' motivational readiness at all follow-ups , suggesting the potential for exercise promotion in cancer follow-up care
Interventions to promote exercise in cancer survivors who report better levels of adherence share some common behaviour change techniques .
These involve setting programme goals , prompting practise and self-monitoring and encouraging participants to attempt to generalise behaviours learned in supervised exercise environments to other , non-supervised context s. However , expecting most sedentary survivors to achieve current guideline recommendations of at least 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise is likely to be unrealistic .
BACKGROUND The beneficial effects of regular exercise for people living with or beyond cancer are becoming apparent .
However , how to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary cancer cohorts is not as well understood .
A large majority of people living with or recovering from cancer do not meet exercise recommendations .
Hence , review ing the evidence on how to promote and sustain exercise behaviour is important .
OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of interventions to promote exercise behaviour in sedentary people living with and beyond cancer and to address the following questions : Which interventions are most effective in improving aerobic fitness and skeletal muscle strength and endurance ?
What adverse effects are attributed to different exercise interventions ?
Which interventions are most effective in improving exercise behaviour amongst patients with different cancers ?
Which interventions are most likely to promote long-term ( 12 months or longer ) exercise behaviour ?
What frequency of contact with exercise professionals is associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What theoretical basis is most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?
What behaviour change techniques are most often associated with increased exercise behaviour ?