Exercise Promotion and Distress Reduction Using a Mobile App-Based Community in Breast Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT: Physical activity (PA) enhancement and mental distress reduction are important issues in cancer survivorship care. Mobile technology, as an emerging method for changing health behaviors, is gaining attention from many researchers. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a mobile app-based community on enhancing PA and decreasing distress in breast cancer survivors. We conducted a non-randomized, prospective, interventional study that had a mobile community-later arm and mobile community-first arm. With an Android smartphone app (WalkON®), daily walk steps and weekly distress scores using app-based Distress Thermometer (DT) questionnaires were collected from participants for about 12 weeks. To examine the difference in weekly step counts before and during the community activity, we us

SUBMITTER: Chung IY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6966488 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature