Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Physical activity promotion interventions are important to address low levels of physical activity among childhood cancer survivors.Regular participation in physical activity and improved physical fitness are associated with many health benefits for survivors, including improved cardiovascular health, decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, improved quality of life, reduced fatigue, and decreased risk of mortality.1 Although the number of intervention studies has increased in recent years, there is a critical gap in effective and scalable physical activity interventions for childhood cancer survivors.2,3 Cheung and colleagues 4 report on the results of a randomized clinical trial evaluating a brief parent motivational interviewing session with 6 months of ongoing motivational interviewing via instant messaging compared with a brief health educational session to promote physical activity among childhood cancer survivors aged 9 to 16 years.They found significant improvement in physical activity compared with the control group at 6 months and 12 months.Results also indicated significant improvements in secondary outcomes of cancer-related fatigue, muscular strength, and quality of life.Strengths of this work include the randomized design, use of a health education control, blinding of assessors, and high recruitment and retention rates.The intervention itself is novel in implementing motivational interviewing to parents via instant messaging to address ambivalence toward their child's physical activity engagement and encourage them to facilitate their child's participation in physical activity.An important highlight of this intervention is the direct parent involvement in the intervention.Prior work demonstrates that family support is a key factor in promoting physical activity among children and adolescents in the general population 5 and among childhood cancer survivors.6 Parents
Source: JAMA Network Open
Authors: Katie A. Devine, Gary Kwok
Institution: Rutgers Cancer Institute
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W4282830161