AUTHOR=Chung Il Yong , Jung Miyeon , Park Yu Rang , Cho Daegon , Chung Haekwon , Min Yul Ha , Park Hye Jin , Lee Minsun , Lee Sae Byul , Chung Seockhoon , Son Byung Ho , Ahn Sei-Hyun , Lee Jong Won TITLE=Exercise Promotion and Distress Reduction Using a Mobile App-Based Community in Breast Cancer Survivors JOURNAL=Frontiers in Oncology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.3389/fonc.2019.01505 DOI=10.3389/fonc.2019.01505 ISSN=2234-943X ABSTRACT=
Physical activity (PA) enhancement and mental distress reduction are important issues in cancer survivorship care. Mobile technology, as an emerging method for changing health behaviors, is gaining attention from many researchers. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a mobile app-based community on enhancing PA and decreasing distress in breast cancer survivors. We conducted a non-randomized, prospective, interventional study that had a mobile community-later arm and mobile community-first arm. With an Android smartphone app (WalkON®), daily walk steps and weekly distress scores using app-based Distress Thermometer (DT) questionnaires were collected from participants for about 12 weeks. To examine the difference in weekly step counts before and during the community activity, we used a paired