Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, 320 Huron Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3J7, Canada.
Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Support Care Cancer. 2024 Jun 6;32(7):411. doi: 10.1007/s00520-024-08602-3.
Initiating and maintaining exercise is challenging for women during and post-cancer treatment. Adopting a peer partner model to provide social support to be active may contribute to lasting behaviour change of both partners. Despite this, finding a "like peer" can be challenging.
To explore women's reasons for seeking an online exercise partner following a diagnosis with cancer (through www.activematch.ca ). We also examined women's potential sociodemographic and cancer-related differences by reported reasons for wanting an exercise partner.
Individuals creating an ActiveMatch profile completed demographic and physical activity questions (N = 199, M(SD) = 51.9(10.8) years), including an open-ended question regarding their "reason for wanting an exercise partner". An inductive content analysis was completed focusing on the participants' peer exercise partner preferences. Additional chi-square tests were run to assess whether participants differed based on sociodemographic and cancer-related characteristics and their motivations to be active by category of "reason for wanting an exercise partner" endorsed in the open-ended question.
The participants' reasons for wanting an exercise partner were coded into seven categories, with most participants highlighting the reasons of motivation (52.3%), social support (48.7%), and accountability and adherence (26.6%). Women < 50 years of age were more likely to report accountability and adherence-related preferences for a partner. Those reporting endorsing weight loss as their primary reason for becoming active were more likely to be categorized as wanting a peer partner for motivation.
While finding a peer partner can be challenging, matching women living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis based on their reason for wanting an exercise partner, as well as their reasons for wanting to be active, may be important to build successful peer exercise partnerships.
对于女性来说，在癌症治疗期间和之后开始并维持运动是具有挑战性的。采用同伴伙伴模式提供社交支持以保持活跃状态，可能有助于双方实现持久的行为改变。尽管如此，找到一个“合适的同伴”可能具有挑战性。
通过 www.activematch.ca 探讨女性在被诊断患有癌症后寻求在线运动伙伴的原因。我们还通过报告的寻找运动伙伴的原因，检查了女性在社会人口统计学和癌症相关方面的潜在差异。
创建 ActiveMatch 个人资料的个人完成了人口统计学和体育活动问题（N=199，M（SD）=51.9（10.8）岁），包括一个关于他们“寻找运动伙伴的原因”的开放式问题。完成了一项归纳内容分析，重点关注参与者对同伴运动伙伴的偏好。根据社会人口统计学和癌症相关特征以及他们的活动动机，进行了额外的卡方检验，按开放式问题中“寻找运动伙伴的原因”类别进行分类。
参与者寻找运动伙伴的原因被编码为七个类别，大多数参与者强调了动机（52.3%）、社会支持（48.7%）和问责制和坚持（26.6%）的原因。年龄<50 岁的女性更有可能报告对伙伴的问责制和坚持相关偏好。那些报告将减肥作为主要活动动机的人更有可能被归类为希望有一个同伴伙伴来获得动力。
虽然寻找同伴伙伴可能具有挑战性，但根据女性寻找运动伙伴的原因以及她们想要积极活动的原因进行匹配，可能对建立成功的同伴运动伙伴关系很重要。
