CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 98Cancer survivorship and carePhysical Activity and HealthMobile Health and mHealth Applications

A randomized trial to promote physical activity among breast cancer patients.

Pinto, Bernardine M., Papandonatos, George D., Goldstein, Michael G.·2013·Health Psychology
DOI 10.1037/a0029886
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Physical activity (PA) has been shown to provide health benefits for breast cancer patients. The effects of augmenting oncology health care provider (HCP) advice for PA with 3 months of telephone counseling versus contact control were evaluated in a randomized trial. METHODS: After receiving brief HCP advice to become physically active, 192 women (age in years: M = 60.0, SD = 9.9) who had completed treatment for Stage 0-IV breast cancer were randomized to telephone counseling to support PA (n = 106) or contact control (n = 86). Their PA, motivational readiness, fatigue, and physical functioning were assessed at baseline (before receiving HCP advice), 3, 6, and 12 months. RESULTS: Telephone counseling produced significant effects on the primary outcome of moderate-intensity PA of about 30 min/week at both 3 months (95% CI = 0.44, 57.32) and 6 months (95% CI = 3.06, 61.26). Intervention participants were also more than twice as likely as control participants to report improvements in achieving PA guidelines of at least 150 min/week at 3 (OR = 2.43, 95% CI = 1.18, 4.98) and 6 months (OR = 2.11, 95% CI = 1.00-4.48). Telephone counseling was significantly more effective than contact control in increasing motivational readiness for PA at all follow-ups (ORs = 3.93-6.28, all ps <.003). No between-groups differences were found for fatigue, while differential improvements in physical functioning did not remain significant past 3 months (p = .01). CONCLUSION: HCP advice plus telephone counseling improved PA among breast cancer patients at 3 and 6 months and also differentially improved patients' motivational readiness at all follow-ups, suggesting the potential for exercise promotion in cancer follow-up care.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1037/a0029886

Cites

33 of 33 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Although there are many competing considerations during oncology visits, particularly for patients undergoing treatment, the steps in recommending exercise do not require much time or skill by the oncology clinician and have been successfully integrated into cancer care follow-up visits.

    “Although there are many competing considerations during oncology visits, particularly for patients undergoing treatment, the steps in recommending exercise do not require much time or skill by the oncology clinician and have been successfully integrated into cancer care follow-up visits.67”

    From Exercise is medicine in oncology: Engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer (2019) · cites this paper as [67]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Pinto, B. M., Papandonatos, G. D., & Goldstein, M. G.
Affiliations
  • Miriam Hospital (US)
  • Brown University (US)
  • Veterans Health Administration (US)
ORCID
Venue
Health Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2013-06
Volume
32
Issue
6
Pages
616-626
ISSN
  • 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
  • 1930-7810
DOI
10.1037/a0029886
OpenAlex
W2312804158
Cited by
98
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2
FWCI
3.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • American Cancer Society
  • Rays of Hope (RSGPB-03-243-01 PBP)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Keywords
breast cancer, physical activity promotion, telephone counseling, provider recommendation, motivational readiness, cancer survivorship, fatigue, physical function, cancer follow-up care
MeSH terms
Aged, Breast Neoplasms, Exercise Therapy, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Promotion, Humans, Middle Aged, Motivation, Telephone, Treatment Outcome, Directive Counseling

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review