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- Title
Effect of Group Dynamics- Based Exercise Versus Personal Training in Breast Cancer Survivors.
- Authors
Leach, Heather J.; Covington, Kelley R.; Voss, Corrine; LeBreton, Kelli A.; Harden, Samantha M.; Schuster, Steven R.
- Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a group dynamics-based exercise intervention versus a personal training intervention for increasing physical activity (PA), physical fitness, and quality of life (QOL) in posttreatment breast cancer survivors. SAMPLE & SETTING: 26 women with stage I or II breast cancer who attended intervention activities at a local academic institution. METHODS & VARIABLES: Participants were randomly assigned to receive an eight-week intervention in either a group dynamics-based exercise or a personal training setting. Both intervention arms received supervised exercise twice per week, as well as PA education and discussion sessions. RESULTS: Significant increases were noted in both intervention arms for vigorous PA, chest press, and leg press. Increases in overall QOL and total PA were significant only in the group dynamics-based exercise intervention arm. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: The group dynamics- based exercise intervention produced similar improvements in PA and physical fitness compared to the personal training intervention, and it may have facilitated greater improvements in overall QOL.
- Subjects
PILOT projects; STATISTICS; AEROBIC exercises; ANALYSIS of variance; PERSONAL training; PHYSICAL fitness; EXERCISE physiology; CANCER patients; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PHYSICAL activity; TUMOR classification; T-test (Statistics); QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; EXERCISE intensity; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis; BREAST tumors; GROUP process
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2019, Vol 46, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1188/19.ONF.185-197