title: Personal accounts of exercise and quality of life from the perspective of breast cancer survivors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the study was to examine breast cancer survivors' perceptions of exercise and their quality of life (QoL).
  
  
  METHODS
  About 289 breast cancer survivors completed a survey addressing exercise attitudes, behaviour and perceived QoL. In addition, the breast cancer survivors completed two open-ended questions designed to explore perceptions of exercise and QoL throughout their cancer experience. Inductive and deductive content analyses were used to analyse responses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  About 19 first-order themes were identified, which were clustered into five second-order themes that included; Exercise behaviour, Lifestyle, Limitations and barriers, Growth and priorities, and Personal beliefs and values. The findings identified a framework of multifaceted views held by breast cancer survivors in relation to their QoL and outlook on their disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Given that cancer survivors are faced with a number of treatment related morbidities 2 years post-diagnosis, there is a need for health professionals to carefully address a cancer survivor's exercise needs in an attempt to help improve their future QoL.
authors: The School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6008, Australia. helenmilne@ekit.com
authors: Helen M
authors: HM
authors: Milne
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Guilfoyle
authors: Sandy
authors: S
authors: Gordon
authors: Karen E
authors: KE
authors: Wallman
authors: Kerry S
authors: KS
authors: Courneya
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D003625:Data Collection; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D011788:Quality of Life; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014904:Western Australia
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