Physical activity is associated with clinically important differences in health-related quality of life among rural and small-town breast cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1079-1087

  Vallance, Jeff K ^a   Lavallee, Celeste M ^a   Culos Reed, Nicole S ^b   Trudeau, Marc G ^b,c  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Medicine Hat Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Fatigue; Health related quality of life; Physical activity; Rural

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT;

AGED; ALBERTA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863453261     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1188-7     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Speck RM, Courneya KS, Masse LC, Duval S, Schmitz KH (2010) An update of controlled physical activity trials in cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Cancer Surviv 4:87-100
2. Friedenreich CM, Gregory J, Kopciuk KA, Mackey JR, Courneya KS (2009) Prospective cohort study of lifetime physical activity and breast cancer survival. Int J Cancer 124:1954-1962
3. Holick CN, Newcomb PA, Trentham-Dietz A, Titus-Ernstoff L, Bersch AJ, Stampfer MJ et al (2008) Physical activity and survival after diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 17:379-386
4. Holmes MD, Chen WY, Feskanich D, Kroenke CH, Colditz GA (2005) Physical activity and survival after breast cancer diagnosis. JAMA 293:2479-2486
5. Irwin ML, Smith AW, McTiernan A, Ballard-Barbash R, Cronin K, Gilliland FD et al (2008) Influence of pre- and postdiagnosis physical activity on mortality in breast cancer survivors: the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle study. J Clin Oncol 26:3958-3964
6. Irwin ML, Crumley D, McTiernan A, Bernstein L, Baumgartner R, Gilliland FD et al (2003) Physical activity levels before and after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma: the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) study. Cancer 97:1746-1757
7. Irwin ML, McTiernan A, Bernstein L, Gilliland FD, Baumgartner R, Baumgartner K et al (2004) Physical activity levels among breast cancer survivors. Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:1484-1491
8. Milne HM, Gordon S, Guilfoyle A, Wallman KE, Courneya KS (2007) Association between physical activity and quality of life among Western Australian breast cancer survivors. Psychooncology 16:1059-1068
9. Rogers LQ, Markwell SJ, Courneya KS, McAuley E, Verhulst S (2009) Exercise preference patterns, resources, and environment among rural breast cancer survivors. J Rural Health 25:388-391
10. Rogers LQ, Markwell SJ, Verhulst S, McAuley E, Courneya KS (2009) Rural breast cancer survivors: exercise preferences and their determinants. Psychooncology 18:412-421
11. Reid-Arndt SA, Cox CR (2010) Does rurality affect quality of life following treatment for breast cancer? J Rural Health 26:402-405
12. DiSipio T, Hayes S, Newman B, Janda M (2009) What determines the health-related quality of life among regional and rural breast cancer survivors? Aust N Z J Public Health 33:534-539
13. Angell KL, Kreshka MA, McCoy R, Donnelly P, Turner-Cobb JM, Graddy K et al (2003) Psychosocial intervention for rural women with breast cancer: the Sierra-Stanford partnership. J Gen Intern Med 18:499-507
14. Wilson SE, Andersen MR, Meischke H (2000) Meeting the needs of rural breast cancer survivors: what still needs to be done? J Womens Health Gend Based Med 9:667-677
15. Lawler S, Spathonis K, Masters J, Adams J, Eakin E (2010) Followup care after breast cancer treatment: experiences and perceptions of service provision and provider interactions in rural Australian women. Support Care Cancer. doi:10-1007/s00520-010-1041-4
16. Blanchard CM, Courneya KS, Stein K (2008) American Cancer Society's SCS, II. Cancer survivors' adherence to lifestyle behavior recommendations and associations with health-related quality of life: results from the American Cancer Society's SCS-II. J Clin Oncol 26:2198-2204
17. Vallance JK, Courneya KS, Plotnikoff RC, Yasui Y, Mackey JR (2007) Randomized controlled trial of the effects of print materials and step pedometers on physical activity and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. J Clin Oncol 25:2352-2359
18. Haskell WL, Lee IM, Pate RR, Powell KE, Blair SN, Franklin BA et al (2007) Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Circulation 116:1081-1093
19. Nelson ME, Rejeski WJ, Blair SN, Duncan PW, Judge JO, King AC et al (2007) Physical activity and public health in older adults: recommendation from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Med Sci Sports Exerc 39:1435-1445
20. Ransdell LB (1996) Maximizing response rate in questionnaire research. Am J Health Behav 20:50-56
21. Dillman DA (2000) Mail and internet surveys: the tailored design method, 2nd edn. Wiley, London
22. Godin G, Jobin J, Bouillon J (1986) Assessment of leisure time exercise behavior by self-report: a concurrent validity study. Can J Public Health 77:359-362
23. Godin G, Shephard RJ (1985) A simple method to assess exercise behavior in the community. Can J Appl Sport Sci 10:141-146
24. Jacobs DR Jr, Ainsworth BE, Hartman TJ, Leon AS (1993) A simultaneous evaluation of 10 commonly used physical activity questionnaires. Med Sci Sports Exerc 25:81-91
25. Cella DF, Tulsky DS, Gray G, Sarafian B, Linn E, Bonomi A et al (1993) The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure. J Clin Oncol 11:570-579
26. Cella D (1997) The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapyanemia (FACT-An) scale: a new tool for the assessment of outcomes in cancer anemia and fatigue. Semin Hematol 34:13-19
27. Cella D, Eton DT, Lai JS, Peterman AH, Merkel DE (2002) Combining anchor and distribution-based methods to derive minimal clinically important differences on the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) anemia and fatigue scales. J Pain Symptom Manage 24:547-561
28. Cella D, Hahn EA, Dineen K (2002) Meaningful change in cancer-specific quality of life scores: differences between improvement and worsening. Qual Life Res 11:207-221
29. Cohen J (1992) Statistical power analysis in the behavioral sciences, 2nd edn. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale
30. Gilmour HG (2007) Physically active Canadians. Health Rep 18:45-65
31. Eton DT, Cella D, Yost KJ, Yount SE, Peterman AH, Neuberg DS et al (2004) A combination of distribution- and anchor-based approaches determined minimally important differences (MIDs) for four endpoints in a breast cancer scale. J Clin Epidemiol 57:898-910
32. Osoba D, Rodrigues G, Myles J, Zee B, Pater J (1998) Interpreting the significance of changes in health-related qualityof- life scores. J Clin Oncol 16:139-144
33. Courneya KS, Karvinen KH, Campbell KL, Pearcey RG, Dundas G, Capstick V et al (2005) Associations among exercise, body weight, and quality of life in a population-based sample of endometrial cancer survivors. Gynecol Oncol 97:422-430
34. Karvinen KH, Courneya KS, North S, Venner P (2007) Associations between exercise and quality of life in bladder cancer survivors: a population-based study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 16:984-990
35. Peddle CJ, Au HJ, Courneya KS (2008) Associations between exercise, quality of life, and fatigue in colorectal cancer survivors. Dis Colon Rectum 51:1242-1248
36. Stevinson C, Faught W, Steed H, Tonkin K, Ladha AB, Vallance JK et al (2007) Associations between physical activity and quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors. Gynecol Oncol 106:244-250
37. Vallance JK, Courneya KS, Jones LW, Reiman T (2005) Differences in quality of life between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors meeting and not meeting public health exercise guidelines. Psychooncology 14:979-991