Hematology and Oncology/Health Care Services

Physical Activity, General Population and Cancer Patients and Survivors

June 2004

Clinical Focus*

• To examine the evidence that physical activity interventions, alone or combined with diet modification or smoking cessation, are effective in helping individuals sustainably increase their aerobic physical activity or maintain adequate aerobic physical activity.

  Within this first portion of the review, there were four sub-aims:

  • Is the effectiveness of theoretically based interventions different?
  • Do hypothesized moderators affect the results of these interventions?
  • Do these interventions affect theoretically hypothesized mediators?
  • In these interventions, is there a relationship between changes in theoretically hypothesized mediators and changes in physical activity?
• To examine whether physical activity is efficacious for improving psychosocial or physiologic outcomes among cancer survivors.

*Addressed in the summary or evidence report.

Effectiveness of Behavioral Interventions to Modify Physical Activity Behaviors in General Populations and Cancer Patients and Survivors
Summary (Publication No. 04-E027-1, June 2004)
Evidence Report (Publication No. 04-E027-2, June 2004)
(PDF Files; File Download; Zipped Appendixes)

Center: University of Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center
Topic Nominator: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

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