Support Care Cancer
July 2024
Purpose: Live-remote exercise interventions, supervised by exercise professionals in a home-based setting, could potentially enhance exercise accessibility for cancer survivors, yet research on their perspectives is limited. This study explored cancer survivors' experience of exercise within the context of a live-remote exercise intervention, to understand factors influencing exercise engagement.
Methods: Four online focus groups with, in total, 22 breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer survivors were conducted between March and June 2023.
Background: Regular exercise has been shown to have beneficial health effects in cancer survivors, including improving quality of life and other important health outcomes. However, providing people with cancer with easily accessible, high-quality exercise support and programs is a challenge. Therefore, there is a need to develop easily accessible exercise programs that draw upon the current evidence.
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