AI Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on the effects of the Maggie's 'Where Now?' post-cancer support program on participants' well-being after cancer treatment.
- The research involved 88 individuals who assessed various aspects of their lives, including diet, before and after a 7-week program, utilizing behavior change techniques to foster improvement.
- Results showed significant gains in self-efficacy, quality of life, and reduced cancer worry, although no notable change in healthy eating habits was observed.
Article Abstract
Objectives: As the number of people living beyond cancer treatment has increased, supportive post-treatment interventions have become increasingly important. The present study investigates whether participation in the Maggie's 'Where Now?' post-cancer support programme is associated with improvements in healthy eating, quality of life, self-efficacy (confidence) or cancer worry.
Methods: In a pre-post design, 88 people who had completed cancer treatment and were enrolled in the 7-week 'Where Now?' programme at Maggie's centres across the UK rated their diet, activity, quality of life, self-efficacy and cancer worries before and after programme participation. Programme content was coded to identify the techniques used to create change ('behaviour change techniques').
Results: Programme participation was associated with significant improvements in general self-efficacy (p=0.01), self-efficacy about engaging in physical activity (p<0.01), quality of life (p<0.01) and cancer worry (p=0.04) but not with changes in healthy eating (p=0.23).
Conclusion: Participation in the 'Where Now?' programme is associated with significant improvements in several key psychological outcomes in people living beyond cancer. The techniques most commonly used in the programme to create change were giving participants instructions about how to perform a particular behaviour, encouraging problemsolving to overcome barriers and setting goals.
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