Georgia White, Senior Research Officer at Metro South Health, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article she and her colleagues co-authored, adding:
“A great start to the New Year – I am thrilled to have our systematic review published in Journal of Cancer Survivorship!
What are the ‘things’ that help to implement exercise into cancer care?
We synthesised implementation facilitators that assist the integration of exercise oncology services within cancer care centres.
164 facilitators were identified across all CFIR 2.0 domains. Most facilitators were categorised within inner setting (30%) and implementation process (27%) domains.
However, it is important to realise successful implementation is not operationalised by a single driving factor but is instead supported by an interconnected network of facilitators.
This review provides a generalised blueprint of facilitators and considerations to guide stakeholders in their own exercise oncology context and implementation efforts – to ensure people living with or beyond cancer have access to exercise services.”
Title: Facilitators to the implementation of exercise into cancer care: a systematic review
Authors: Georgia L. White, Mary A. Kennedy, Brent J. Cunningham, Riley Dunn, Jason Martin, Meegan Walker, Craig T. Wallington-Gates, Hattie Wright, Bryan Chan, Grace L. Rose
Read the Full Article on Journal of Cancer Survivorship
Nicole Stout, Senior Director of Survivorship and Wellness at the American Cancer Society, shared this post, adding:
“Step off into the New Year asking how your cancer center can leverage these facilitators to implement exercise oncology pathways.
How could your clinic:
- Assess- screen for and identify those who need an exercise prescription.
- Advise- provide evidence-based guidance on the importance of exercise and key components of exercise for those with cancer.
- Refer- get the patient connected to the best supportive care provider or program for their needs.
This is about getting exercise awareness and recommendations into your clinic workflow. This is about getting patients to the right resources to actively engage them in more movement and activity.
But we can’t just give vague recommendations, we need to get specific and use the robust evidence available.
The cancer clinic workflow should be about identifying:
Who, does what, when, and how, to identify the need for exercise prescription and refer patients to the right place/provider/resource get our patients moving more!
Exercise is Medicine, especially for those living with and beyond cancer!.”
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