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 ?
Contribution of early intensive prolonged pelvic floor exercises on urinary continence recovery after bladder neck-sparing radical prostatectomy: results of a prospective controlled randomized trial.
AIMS In this prospect i ve controlled r and omized trial we assessed the effects of early , intensive , prolonged pelvic floor exercises ( PFE ) on urinary incontinence following bladder neck ( BN ) sparing RRP . METHODS A sample of 152 patients with localized prostate cancer underwent RRP with BN preservation . Out of this group we r and omized 107 incontinent patients into 2 groups . We considered incontinent patients with 24 hr Pad test > 2 g. The T group received instructions regarding an intensive program of PFE , from 7 days after catheter removal for as long as any degree of incontinence persisted , within a period of 1 year . The control ( C ) group did not receive instructions . The outcome was assessed using the 24 hr Pad test , a visual analogue scale ( VAS ) and a single question of QoL. Results at baseline and at 1 , 3 , 6 , and 12 months were available for 54 and 40 patients , respectively . RESULTS The overall spontaneous continence rate after catheter removal was 23.6 % . The proportion of men still incontinent was significantly higher in the C group than treatment ( T ) group at 1 ( 97.5 % vs. 83.3 % ; P = 0.04 ) , 3 ( 77.5 % vs. 53.7 % ; P = 0.03 ) , 6 ( 60 % vs. 33.3 % ; P = 0.01 ) , and 12 months ( 52.5 % vs. 16.6 % ; P < 0.01 ) . Similarly , the VAS and the response to the QoL question at 12 months significantly differed between the two groups ( P = 0.01 and 0.03 , respectively ) . CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that early intensive prolonged PFE can further increase the number of continent patients and this improvement persists in the first 12 months . The second 6 months following surgery are still useful to recovery
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 ?