Acceptability of the Fit2ThriveMB mHealth physical activity promotion intervention in women with metastatic breast cancer.

Purpose: Increasing physical activity (PA) is safe and associated with improved health outcomes in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Mobile health (mHealth) PA interventions that allow for remote monitoring and tailoring to abilities may be particularly useful for MBC patients. However, limited data exist on the acceptability of these interventions for MBC patients.

Effect of the Fit2Thrive Intervention on Patient-reported Outcomes in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Full Factorial Trial.

Background: Moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) interventions improve patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of physical and psychological health among breast cancer survivors (BCS); however, the effects of specific intervention components on PROs are unknown.

Purpose: To use the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to examine overall effects of the Fit2Thrive MVPA promotion intervention on PROs in BCS and explore whether there are intervention component-specific effects on PROs.

Methods: Physically inactive BCS [n = 269; Mage = 52.

A multi-site trial of an electronic health integrated physical activity promotion intervention in breast and endometrial cancers survivors: MyActivity study protocol.

Despite the known benefits of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for breast and endometrial cancer survivors, most are insufficiently active, interventions response is heterogeneous, and MVPA programming integration into cancer care is limited. A stepped care approach, in which the least resource-intensive intervention is delivered first and additional components are added based on individual response, is one strategy to enhance uptake of physical activity programming. However, the most effective intervention augmentation strategies are unknown.

Dead molluscan shells from multiple trophic groups as archives of nitrogen isotopic evidence of wastewater gradients in estuaries.

Increased coastal urbanization worldwide has resulted in increased nitrogen inputs to ecosystems, leading to eutrophication and other negative effects. We assessed δN in the dead-collected shells of three molluscan species in two estuaries in order to evaluate their ability to identify known gradients in wastewater nitrogen input, namely from private septic systems feeding directly into Waquoit Bay and from a groundwater plume reflecting wastewater injection at a municipal treatment plant in West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts, USA. Shells of a suspension-feeder (Geukensia demissa), a micro-algal grazer (Littorina littorea), and an omnivore (Nassarius obsoletus) were collected from lower intertidal sediments near the taxon's life habitat.

An Ethical Risk Management Approach for Medical Devices.

Introduction: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) audits and validates devices before mass production to ensure high standards, safety, and quality of medical devices being marketed. Despite those measures in place, consumers' trusts in medical devices are still dwindling based on safety and privacy risks that eventually influence the health of patients.

Methods: The method employed in this study is conceptual and includes a selection of a company that develops medical devices to use as an example organization to apply the hybrid risk management framework, defined herein in the results and discussion section.