Breast cancer survivors' perspectives of a group-based physical activity program
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Abstract
Regular physical activity (PA) for women treated for breast cancer can improve length and quality of life by reducing the risk of chronic diseases, disability, and mortality. However, most women are inactive or insufficiently active post-treatment. Structured group-based PA programs offered within the community can be an effective strategy to promote PA in this population, as well as improve social, psychological, and physical wellbeing. To encourage participation in such programs, it is necessary to understand barriers and motives related to women’s participation to ensure group-based PA programs are successful in the long-term. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perceived barriers and motives experienced by women attending an 8-week group-based PA program offered within a community setting. Women who had completed treatment for breast cancer (N = 7; Mage = 55.29 years) participated in two semi-structured interviews during the first and last week the program. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes of barriers and motives (Braun & Clark, 2006). The identified barriers could be subdivided into factors external (i.e., environmental, competing roles and responsibilities) and internal (i.e., physical, cancer-specific) to the women while the identified motives were internal (i.e., gaining social support, being around similar others, feeling a sense of personal fulfillment, acquiring health benefits, feeling a sense of normality, gaining a sense of control over one’s life). Findings provide further evidence that group-based PA programs can be beneficial as a strategy to enhance wellbeing while increasing PA levels in breast cancer survivors. Further, they underscore the need for health professionals designing and delivering such programs to be aware of the perceived barriers and motives to optimize participation in group-based PA in this population. Acknowledgments: This manuscript was prepared while a Canadian Cancer Society Career Development Award in Prevention supported the third author.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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