Cancer care workforce and exercise counseling
Date:
Tue, Nov 29th, 2022 to Tue, Nov 29th, 2022Time:
10:00 amDescription:
Exploring the cancer care workforces’ capacity to implement exercise counseling and an exercise referral pathway: a mixed methods study
A Visiting Scholar webinar sponsored by the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention
Exercise is recognized as safe and beneficial for cancer patients throughout the cancer continuum. However, little is known about the capacity of the existing cancer care workforce (e.g., medical, radiation oncologists, cancer care nurses and allied health professionals) to promote and integrate exercise advice and referral as part of usual care. This research explored the cancer care workforces’ capacity to provide exercise advice, promote the uptake and maintenance of regular physical exercise, and identify opportunities to integrate the cancer specific exercise recommendations into usual care. Based on this formative evaluation phase, exercise strategies and resources for clinician-initiated exercise counseling and referral were co-designed and tested with a number of cancer care clinicians at a local cancer center in Sydney, Australia. Findings and key learning from this project will be presented and discussed.
Presenter:
Dr. Cristina Caperchione, Associate Professor of Physical Activity and Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Venue:
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Address:via Zoom webinar, Kelowna, V1V 1V7
Cost:
Free and open to the public - Everyone is welcomeTicketing and/or registration:
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