Rehabilitation including structured active play intervention for preschoolers with cancer during treatment: A RePlay qualitative study of parents' experiences.

Purpose: Preschool children receiving cancer treatment experience decreased gross motor function and challenges in personal and social development. For preschoolers, parents are critical for their child's cancer treatment trajectory, including their participation in physical activity. This study aimed to explore the parents' experiences with a novel rehabilitation intervention, including structured active play for preschoolers with cancer during treatment.

The potential of structured active play for social and personal development in preschoolers during cancer treatment: A qualitative RePlay study.

Aim: To explore the potential of a structured active play intervention to promote social and personal development in preschoolers during cancer treatment.

Design: A hermeneutic-phenomenological inspired explorative study.

Methods: Participant observations were conducted on 15 consecutively sampled children (aged 1-5 years) from April 2021 to April 2022.

The rehabilitation including structured active play (RePlay) model: A conceptual model for organizing physical rehabilitation sessions based on structured active play for preschoolers with cancer.

Anti-cancer treatments, as well as cancer itself, reduce children's cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, and gross motor functions. Early rehabilitation programs, including physical activity for childhood cancer patients, can counteract these adverse effects. Previous studies of school-aged children (6-18 years old) indicate that physical activity, including aerobic and resistance training, is safe, feasible, and effective.

Rehabilitation Including Structured Active Play for Preschoolers With Cancer (RePlay)-Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Children diagnosed with cancer experience muscle weakness and impaired physical function caused by treatment and related immobility. The situation forces them into a negative cycle of diminished participation in physical and leisure activities and isolation from peers; inhibiting the natural development of social and gross motor skills. This manuscript presents a protocol for a study that explores the effects of using structured active play to maintain preschoolers' age specific gross motor function and social and personal skills while undertaking intensive cancer treatment.

The Dancing Nurses and the Language of the Body: Training Somatic Awareness, Bodily Communication, and Embodied Professional Competence in Nurse Education.

At first glance, dance and movement may appear foreign to the idea of nurse education. On closer inspection, it could be high time. The flow of words may stop, but the body is always in movement--always communicating.