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- Title
Preferências no exercício físico em mulheres portuguesas sobreviventes de cancro da mama.
- Authors
Ferreira, Germano; Antunes, Cláudia; Pereira, Andreia; Amaral, Renata; Pedro, Luísa; Carolino, Elisabete
- Abstract
Introduction - The benefits of physical exercise in cancer survivors have been reported, although it's practice remains low, becoming important the acknowledgement of the factors that promote the motivation and adhesion of physical exercise in this population. Objectives - To identify the preferences about programming and counseling of physical exercise inside a population-based sample of Portuguese women who have survived breast cancer. We also intend to investigate the influence of demographic and medical variables in those preferences. Method - A questionnaire was applied to a non-probabilistic sequential sample of 26 women that have survived breast cancer. Results - Our sample was mainly composed by women aged between 45 and 62, married or in a cohabitation state, with basic instruction, employed and with a Body Mass Index (BMI)> 24.4. Most of them have had radical mastectomy for at least one month, had the Stage I of the tumor, and had done chemotherapy as an adjuvant treatment and some of them were practicing post-surgery physical therapy. The majority of participants showed interest in receiving counseling, felt able to participate in an exercise program, preferred receiving face-to-face counseling, at the hospital and with other cancer patients. The exercise should be supervised and with a moderate intensity. Walking was their preferred choice of exercise. It was not statistically possible to establish the relationship between demographic and medical variables and those preferences. Conclusion - Some results are in agreement with previous studies; however, others diverge from these. The results obtained can provide important information for future construction of exercise programs for this population.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; EXERCISE -- Social aspects; BREAST cancer patients; QUESTIONNAIRES; BODY mass index
- Publication
Saúde & Tecnologia, 2012, Issue 8, p65
- ISSN
1646-9704
- Publication type
Article