MOVEMENT Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Mixed-methOd investigation of palliatiVE care exercise: Multiple perspectivEs on adhereNce and conTinuing exercise behaviour, in advanced cancer. (MOVEMENT)
IRAS ID
237104
Contact name
Daniel Aze
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 1 days
Research summary
Exercise is increasingly being shown to benefit participants with advanced cancer primarily through improving physical functioning and abating many of the negative symptoms of the disease and its treatments. Implementing exercise programmes, for this patient group, has been challenging due to variations in participant adherence across different settings. Little is known about factors which inhibit or promote exercise adherence and little is known about continuing exercise behaviour following a programmes’ completion. Identifying factors which may prevent, and conversely, may promote successful implementation of exercise is an important area for research in this patient group.
MOVEMENT study shall involve interviews of two different groups of people. Group one, shall include participants with advanced cancer enrolled in a course of supervised exercise classes at a local palliative care day centre. Group two, shall include the healthcare professions who have been involved in the design and delivery of those classes. Exercise class participants (Group 1) will be interviewed at two time points, once during the exercise class schedule and once six weeks after the last exercise class. Healthcare professionals who designed or delivered the classes (Group 2) will be interviewed at one time point only.
The data collected in these interviews shall be analysed to identify factors which may hinder adherence to exercise in people with advanced cancer as well as factors which may encourage or abet adherence to exercise in this patient group. It is hoped this new information can be then be used as part of a PhD project to help design a future exercise intervention with the intention of improving adherence in this patient group.REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SC/0212
Date of REC Opinion
1 May 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion