Prevalence, correlates, and psychosocial outcomes of sport participation in young adult cancer survivors
Highlights
► Young adult cancer survivors that participated in sports had better psychosocial outcomes. ► The most common sport being golf (40.8%) followed by ice hockey (8.3%). ► Subgroups are less active in sport i.e. women, minorities, obese, and those in poorer health. ► Sport may be an effective way to increase physical activity in young adult cancer survivors.
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Participants and procedures
Ethics approval was received from the Alberta Health Services ethics board and the University of Alberta ethics board. These data are from a cross-sectional study of PA that has been described fully elsewhere (Bélanger et al., 2011, 2012b; Bélanger, Plotnikoff, Clark, & Courneya, 2012a). Eligibility for the study were: (1) diagnosed with invasive cancer in Alberta between the ages of 20–44 and (2) still between the ages of 20 and 44 and living in Alberta, Canada. There is still debate among
Results
Flow of participants through the study has been reported elsewhere (Bélanger et al., 2011). Briefly, of the 2000 mailed surveys, 588 surveys were returned completed and 460 were returned because of a wrong address resulting in a 29% completion rate (588/2000) and a 38% response rate (588/1540) excluding the wrong addresses. Demographic and medial date have also been reported elsewhere (Bélanger et al., 2011). In brief, the mean age of the participants was 38.2 ± 5.6, 70% were female, mean
Discussion
Approximately one third of YACS reported participating in sport, which is comparable to the 31% sport participation rate reported in the general Canadian population of the same age range (Statistics Canada, 2005). Moreover, it is also comparable to the 34% reported in a study of adolescent cancer survivors (Keats et al., 1999). It is slightly higher, however, than the 23% sport participation rate reported for colorectal survivors who were generally older with a mean age of over 65 years (
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