Cancer survivors’ and their romantic partners’ preferences for a couples-based physical activity intervention: A needs assessment study.
Student Initiated Study by: Gillian Ulrich, MA
Physical activity is associated with improved health outcomes for cancer survivors, cancer caregivers, and romantic couples, yet few exercise interventions have aimed to simultaneously promote exercise within cancer-caregiver dyads. This research explored whether cancer survivors and their romantic partners are receptive to the idea of a couples-based exercise program, and it tested several predictors of survivors’ and partners’ reported interest in and importance and likelihood of couples-based exercise. Further, it examined if cancer-specific exercise education influenced survivors’ and partners’ exercise knowledge, outcome expectations, and intentions to join individual and couples-based exercise programs. This project is complete.
Publications and Presentations Related to this Project:
Ulrich, G. R., Nogg, K., Freeman, Z., Ranby, K. W. (2022). Effects of remotely-delivered physical activity education on exercise beliefs and intentions of active and non-active cancer survivors and their partners. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 12(5), 663-672.
Ulrich, G. R., Callan, S., & Ranby, K. W. (2021). Beliefs and interests in physical activity programs of cancer survivors and their romantic partners. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 1-14.
Nogg, K., Ulrich, G. R., Ranby, K. W. (2021, March). The effects of cancer-specific exercise education in insufficiently active survivor-partner dyads. Poster presentation at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society Annual Conference held virtually.
Ulrich, G.R., & Ranby, K.W. Measuring ‘Partner Investment in Physical Activity’ among Cancer Survivors and their Romantic Partners. Poster presentation at the 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in San Francisco, CA, April 2020 (Conference canceled).
Smieja, H.A., Lloyd, G.R., Ranby, K.W. Relationship length as a predictor of physical activity interest among couples following cancer treatment. Poster presentation at the Research and Creative Activities Symposium in Denver, CO, April 2019.
Lloyd, G.R., Ranby, K.W., Smieja, H.A., Rogers, C.M. Predictors of couples-based exercise interest in cancer survivors and their romantic partners. Poster presentation at the Cancer Prevention and Control Program Retreat at the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Denver, CO, March 2019.
Ranby, K.W. (Chair), Lewis, M. (Discussant), Lloyd, G.R. (Presenter), Varner, S. (Presenter), Callan, S. (Presenter), & Huelsnitz, C. (Presenter). Determining who to target for couples-based health interventions: An examination of patient and non-patient samples. Symposium presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Washington, DC, March 2019.