Trial reportSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2018
Ease of walking associates with greater free-living physical activity and reduced depressive symptomology in breast cancer survivors: pilot randomized trial.
Trial report in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Aerobic Physical Activity and Depression Among Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Metabolic adaptation is an illusion, only present when participants are in negative energy balance.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Trial
- Inverse association between changes in energetic cost of walking and vertical accelerations in non-metastatic breast cancer survivors.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Managing the Symptoms of Depression in Women with Breast Cancer: A Literature Review of Clinical Trials.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Japan's cancer survivorship guidelines for exercise and physical activity.Japanese journal of clinical oncology · 2025Article
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- Trajectories of objectively measured physical function among older breast cancer survivors in comparison with cancer-free controls.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2022Article
- Revisiting the Compensatory Theory as an explanatory model for relapse in obesity management.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Metabolic adaptation is not a major barrier to weight-loss maintenance.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Relationship between V̇oJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2019Article
- Sarcopenia and Its Implications for Metabolic Health.Journal of obesity · 2019Review
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Abstract
purposeWe hypothesized exercise training-induced improvements in ease of walking would associate with favorable changes in objectively measured physical activity (PA) and self-reported depressive symptoms following a PA behavior-change intervention in non-metastatic breast cancer survivors (BCS).
methodsTwenty-seven BCS received random assignment to an intervention (INT) or control group (CON). INT included counseling/group discussions coupled with supervised exercise tapered to unsupervised exercise. PA, depressive symptoms, and ease of walking were evaluated pre-/post-intervention using 10-day accelerometry, HADS depression subscale, and indirect calorimetry during a standardized treadmill test, respectively. PA composite score was calculated by converting weekly minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA and average steps/day to z-scores then dividing the sum by 2. Cardiac efficiency was determined by dividing steady-state oxygen uptake by heart rate to evaluate the volume of oxygen consumed per heartbeat.
resultsANCOVA revealed a significant time by group interaction showing the INT group exhibited greater positive changes in the PA composite compared to the CON (INT, + 0.14 ± 0.66 au vs. CON, - 0.48 ± 0.49 au; p = 0.019; η
conclusionsThese data support the assertion that reducing the physiological difficulty of walking may contribute to greater engagement in free-living PA, less sedentary time, and decreased psychosocial distress among BCS.
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