Rethinking exercise identity: a qualitative study of physically inactive cancer patients' transforming process while undergoing chemotherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore physically inactive breast and colon cancer patients' prediagnosis exercise history and attitudes to physical activity (PA) and experiences in initiating PA while undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy.

Design

An explorative qualitative study guided the interpretive analysis of semistructured, open-ended interviews conducted at initiation of chemotherapy and after 12 weeks. The study was embedded in a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Participants were recruited from the Oncological Department at a hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Participants

33 patients with cancer, median age 49 years: 25 patients with breast cancer and 8 with colon cancer, 72% with a low cardiac respiratory fitness level and the majority with a high level of educatio

SUBMITTER: Adamsen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629696 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature