Which Intervention Strategies Promote the Adoption and Maintenance of Physical Activity? Evidence From Behavioral Trials With Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

We address four questions about interventions to promote physical activity in cancer survivors: (a) How often is both the adoption and maintenance of behavior change tested in trials? (b) How often do interventions generate adoption-plus-maintenance of behavior change? (c) Are intervention strategies specifically geared at promoting maintenance of behavior change deployed in trials? and (d) Which intervention strategies distinguish trials that promote both the adoption and maintenance of physical activity from trials that promote adoption-only or generate no behavioral changes?

Methods

Computerized literature searches identified 206 reports of randomized trials that measured physical activity in the wake of the intervention.

Results

Only 51 reports

SUBMITTER: Sheeran P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847901 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature