How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected eating habits and physical activity in breast cancer survivors: the DianaWeb study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Breast cancer (BC) survivors are increasingly interested in learning about healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of BC recurrence and mortality. The DianaWeb study, a community-based participatory research, offers BC patients a specific interactive website to help them in adopting and maintain correct lifestyles, in line with World Cancer Research Fund recommendations. However, to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries introduced restrictions which, inevitably, caused sudden lifestyle changes. The current study aimed at evaluating changes in lifestyle in BC survivors before, during, and after the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

We used data of 224 BC cancer survivors enrolled in the DianaWeb study. We evaluated the adherence to ph

SUBMITTER: Acito M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9745269 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature