title: Searching for maintenance in exercise interventions for cancer survivors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Translating evidence-based exercise interventions into practice is important for expanding the capacity to support cancer survivors. Using the reach, efficacy/effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE-AIM) framework and scoping study methodology, we addressed the research question, "What is known about the maintenance of exercise interventions for cancer survivors that would inform translation from research to practice and community settings?" Maintenance was investigated at the individual and setting level.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature searches were performed in the PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and Sport Discus databases for articles published from January 2009 to June 2012. Abstracts were judged using a priori criteria for the survivor population, exercise intervention, and maintenance on the individual or setting level. We included completed and planned randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other study designs. Publications meeting the criteria were reviewed and coded.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 211 abstracts meeting patient and exercise criteria, 24 (19 RCTs) met the maintenance criteria. Nine of the 12 completed RCTs demonstrated maintenance of intervention outcomes after 3 to 14 months of follow-up. The planned RCTs described interventions lasting 2 to 4.5 months and maintenance intervals lasting 3 to 12 months following the active intervention. Maintenance at the setting level was reported in one publication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  On the individual level, intervention outcomes were maintained in most studies, in a variety of settings and survivor subpopulations. Maintenance on the setting level was scarcely addressed. This scoping study suggests several strategies that could be taken by agencies, clinicians, and researchers to develop more effective and sustainable exercise programs for cancer survivors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many benefits of exercise training are maintained for months after cancer survivors complete controlled research studies but relatively little is known about how to translate research to sustainable community-based exercise programs. A better understanding of how programs can be sustained in practice beyond short-term research or grant funding is needed to support a growing number of survivors.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Colorado, Mail Stop C288-19, 13120 E. 19th Avenue, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA, catherine.jankowski@ucdenver.edu.
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Jankowski
authors.forename: Marcia G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ory
authors.forename: Daniela B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dwyer
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Birken
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Risendal
mesh_terms: D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011788:Quality of Life; D017741:Survivors
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