Exploring barriers and facilitators to physical activity among women in treatment or post-treatment for cancer
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Engaging in regular physical activity (PA) can reduce many cancer-related symptoms such as fatigue, depression, anxiety, and improve other factors such as strength, self-esteem, and overall health. Although being active is safe and feasible for cancer patients, up to 70% of cancer patients are not meeting recommended PA guidelines. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the barriers and facilitators to PA participation among women cancer survivors. We conducted interviews with 15 women who were undergoing or had completed treatment for any type and stage of cancer within the past five years. Participants were recruited from a hospital and an associated wellness center. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed and coded, and four primary themes emerged. First, the women discussed the levels and types of PA they performed prior to diagnosis, during, and after treatment. Many women had decreased activity levels during and after treatment. Second, the women discussed environments that were most conducive to exercising, mainly the wellness center. Third, fatigue and time were discussed as the principal barriers to engaging in PA. Finally, the primary motivational factors encouraging PA were discussed, such as reclaiming an identity related to being active. Overall, our findings are consistent with previous research. One important and novel finding from our research is the critical importance of a PA identity in motivating return to PA after cancer treatment. Cancer patients and survivors face unique PA experiences and could benefit from tailored exercise promotion interventions that focus on fostering a PA identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".