Physical Activity in People with Multiple Myeloma: Associated Factors and Exercise Program Preferences

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Nicol, Jennifer L
Woodrow, Carmel
Burton, Nicola W
Mollee, Peter
Nicol, Andrew J
Hill, Michelle M
Skinner, Tina L
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People with multiple myeloma (MM) often experience disease symptoms and treatment toxicities that can be alleviated through physical activity (PA). However, the majority of people with MM are insufficiently active. This study explored PA among people with MM, including differences by treatment stage, symptoms and demographics, and programming preferences. Overall, 126 people with MM (77% response rate) completed the survey. Pre-diagnosis, 25.4% were sufficiently active, with 12.0% remaining active after treatment. Respondents who were physically active pre-diagnosis were 46.7 times (95% confidence intervals CI: 2.03, 1072.1) more likely to meet PA guidelines following an MM diagnosis compared to people not meeting guidelines pre-diagnosis. Experiencing MM symptoms and receiving PA advice from healthcare professionals were not associated with meeting PA guidelines. People with MM were interested in exercise programs (55%) that are low-cost (77%), offered at flexible times (74%), and at locations close to home (69%), both during active treatment and remission (57%), and supervised by an exercise oncology specialist (48%). People with MM, particularly those insufficiently active prior to diagnosis, should be offered convenient, low-cost exercise programs supervised by an exercise oncology specialist to increase PA participation.

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Journal of Clinical Medicine

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9

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10

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Nicol, JL; Woodrow, C; Burton, NW; Mollee, P; Nicol, AJ; Hill, MM; Skinner, TL, Physical Activity in People with Multiple Myeloma: Associated Factors and Exercise Program Preferences, Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9 (10), pp. 3277

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