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Conditions
Brief summary
This study is seeking to understand the relationship between exercise health service utilisation and other patient factors including diagnosis, cancer-related medical treatments and geographical location. Furthermore, the study will also look at patient’s current experiences around referral to exercise services and barriers related to this. Who is it for? If you are an adult with a diagnosis of cancer, any type and stage, living in NSW and able to give informed consent. Study details Participants will be participating in a semi structured group interview and be asked about their experience with advice about exercise and referral to exercise services after a cancer diagnosis. Participants will also complete a questionnaire detailing their demographic information. This research hopes to improve access to exercise services for people with cancer.
Interventions
Key stakeholders will be interviewed in semi-structured focus groups or interviews (duration 60 mins) to understand their experience with advice about exercise and referral to exercise services after a cancer diagnosis. The stakeholders in question will be people with lived experience of cancer (anyone with a cancer diagnosis, irrespective of stage or type of cancer and treatment trajectory). And healthcare professionals who interact with these people. This includes primary care clinicians (onco
Key stakeholders will be interviewed in semi-structured focus groups or interviews (duration 60 mins) to understand their experience with advice about exercise and referral to exercise services after a cancer diagnosis. The stakeholders in question will be people with lived experience of cancer (anyone with a cancer diagnosis, irrespective of stage or type of cancer and treatment trajectory). And healthcare professionals who interact with these people. This includes primary care clinicians (oncologists, haematologists, cancer nurses, in patient allied health care professionals) and exercise professionals who deliver exercise services to people with cancer (exercise physiologists and physiotherapists). each stakeholder group will be in separate groups, for example, people with lived experiences in groups together, cancer clinicians in groups together and exercise professionals in groups together.
Sponsors
University of New South Wales
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria for participants taking part in this study include: >/= 18 years, AND, Any sex, AND, English speaking, AND Currently living in NSW AND Able to give informed consent, AND People with a diagnosis of cancer, any type and stage, OR, Clinicians treating people with cancer (oncologist, haematologist, cancer nurse, GP), OR, Exercise professional (Accredited exercise physiologist/ physiotherapist) who work with people who have cancer.
Exclusion criteria
People without a cancer diagnosis or health professionals who do not treat people with a diagnosis of cancer People who cannot give informed consent People who do not have access to a device with internet acces to enable a video or phone call.
Outcome results
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