Exercise facilitators and barriers following participation in a community-based exercise and education program for cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT: Cancer survivors participating in supervised exercise programs learn to exercise safely with oversight from care providers who monitor and facilitate their progress. This study investigated the long-term exercise participation levels and identified exercise barriers for graduates from a specialized cancer exercise and education program. Subjects were graduates from a 12-week supervised exercise program (www.canwellprogram.ca) who participated in a, prospective, long-term evaluation. Measures included: six-minute walk test (6-MWT), STEEP treadmill test, Functional Assessment Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise Questionnaire, and exercise barriers survey. Analysis was performed using the paired t -test. Fifty-seven (55% of e

SUBMITTER: Cheifetz O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4378345 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature