Skip Navigation


Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on June 15, 2004
Health Education Research 2004 19(6):686-697; doi:10.1093/her/cyg094
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
19/6/686    most recent
cyg094v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (10)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Daley, A. J.
Right arrow Articles by Saxton, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Daley, A. J.
Right arrow Articles by Saxton, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Health Education Research Vol.19 no.6, © Oxford University Press 2004; All rights reserved

Exercise therapy in women who have had breast cancer: design of the Sheffield women's exercise and well-being project

Amanda J. Daley1,5, Nanette Mutrie2, Helen Crank3, Robert Coleman4 and John Saxton3

1 Department of Primary Care and General Practice, Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, 2 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ, 3 The Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S10 2BP and 4 Division of Genomic Medicine, Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Cancer Research Centre, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield S10 2JS, UK

5 Correspondence to: A. J. Daley; E-mail: DaleyA{at}medgp3.bham.ac.uk

Recovering from cancer treatment can be a difficult experience, both physically and psychologically. This paper describes a randomized controlled trial that evaluates the effects of exercise therapy upon quality of life in 120 women who have had breast cancer. To facilitate behaviour change, exercise counselling is also included as an integral component in the exercise therapy intervention. Participants are randomized to one of three groups: exercise therapy, body conditioning (placebo control) or a normal care control group. The supervised exercise therapy and body conditioning sessions take place 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Outcome measures include quality of life, physical self-perceptions, depression, satisfaction with life, exercise behaviour, aerobic capacity and percentage body fat. All outcomes are assessed at baseline, 4 weeks during the intervention and at the end of the 8-week intervention. Follow-up assessments of outcomes take place at 3 and 6 months post-intervention. As the number of women surviving breast cancer is increasing and cancer treatment is linked to reduced quality of life, it is critical to evaluate treatments that improve the quality of life of this population or hasten recovery following treatment.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Health Educ ResHome page
C. Emslie, F. Whyte, A. Campbell, N. Mutrie, L. Lee, D. Ritchie, and N. Kearney
'I wouldn't have been interested in just sitting round a table talking about cancer'; exploring the experiences of women with breast cancer in a group exercise trial
Health Educ. Res., December 1, 2007; 22(6): 827 - 838.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JCOHome page
A. J. Daley, H. Crank, J. M. Saxton, N. Mutrie, R. Coleman, and A. Roalfe
Randomized Trial of Exercise Therapy in Women Treated for Breast Cancer
J. Clin. Oncol., May 1, 2007; 25(13): 1713 - 1721.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 BMJHome page
J. K Silver
Exercise in survivors of cancer
BMJ, March 10, 2007; 334(7592): 484 - 485.
[Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.