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Record W4409753333 · doi:10.1186/s13102-025-01131-4

Connecting women who are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer to engage in physical activity: a two-arm randomized controlled trial

2025· article· en· W4409753333 on OpenAlexafffund
Ross M. Murray, Erin K. O’Loughlin, Jenna Smith‐Turchyn, Angela J. Fong, Meghan H. McDonough, Daniel Santa Mina, Kelly P. Arbour‐Nicitopoulos, Linda Trinh, Jennifer M. Jones, Jacqueline L. Bender, S. Nicole Culos‐Reed, Jennifer R. Tomasone, Madison F. Vani, Catherine M. Sabiston

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCancer survivorship and care
Canadian institutionsCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de MontréalUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of TorontoUniversity Health NetworkQueen's UniversityMcMaster University
FundersCanadian Cancer Society
KeywordsPsychological interventionSocial supportPartner effectsRandomized controlled trialPeer supportPsychologyIntervention (counseling)Breast cancerPeer groupClinical psychologyPhysical activityPhysical therapyMedicineSocial psychologyCancerInternal medicinePsychiatry

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Women who are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer (WBC) encounter barriers engaging in adequate physical activity (PA). Pairing WBC with PA partners is a feasible approach to promote social support, potentially increasing PA levels. However, WBC may not perceive to have the expertise required to facilitate PA behavior. As such, providing access to a Qualified Exercise Professional (QEP) may help facilitate PA within dyads. To date, the impact of including a QEP in peer-based interventions remains unclear. METHODS: A two-arm randomized controlled trial (n = 108) was designed to compare a virtual peer and QEP-supported intervention group (MatchQEP: n = 54) to a control group matched only with a peer (Match: n = 54) on moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). The association between social support within peer dyads and MVPA, and the impact of partners' level of MVPA on individual MVPA were also examined. Participants in the MatchQEP condition met with the QEP and their partner on Zoom once per week for 10 weeks. Those in the Match condition were encouraged to independently communicate with and support their assigned partner over 10 weeks. Analyses involved descriptive statistics, regression analyses, and Actor Partner Interdependence models. RESULTS: Social support significantly related to MVPA, irrespective of intervention group. The addition of a QEP did not yield additional benefits in increasing MVPA levels. Actor-Partner Interdependence Models reveal that partners' PA behaviors did not significantly impact individual MVPA levels. CONCLUSION: These findings underscore the significance of social support from partners in promoting MVPA among WBC, emphasizing the need for interventions focusing on supportive partner relationships. By leveraging social support between partners, interventions can better address the unique needs of WBC, ultimately improving their health and well-being. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Connecting Breast Cancer Survivors for Exercise (C4E), Trial Registration Number: NCT04771975, 28/02/2020.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.003
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.323 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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