Community Volunteers Promoting Physical Activity Among Cancer Survivors
Description: Project Narrative Physical activity programs, when offered in research settings, have been shown to improve quality of life and reduce fatigue among breast cancer survivors. We plan to train Reach to Recovery volunteers at the American Cancer Society (New England Division) to provide a 12-week telephone-based physical activity program (RTR Plus) for breast cancer patients. The comparison group of patients will receive Reach to Recovery services (RTR). Physical activity, fatigue and other outcomes will be examined among 108 breast cancer patients at the start of the program, at 12 weeks and 24 weeks. If the physical activity program is found to be effective, there is a potential for dissemination among the 13,000 Reach to Recovery volunteers across the U.S.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-05-30
Investigator: BERNARDINE M. PINTO
Institution: MIRIAM HOSPITAL
Topic: Cancer survivorship and care
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 14
Funder award ID: R01CA132854
OpenAlex ID: G4139007204