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Fit survivor
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Fit survivor
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a multicomponent health intervention for adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors
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Mackowski
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Nicholas
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Nicholas Mackowski
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Shawn
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Shawn Arent
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chair
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Devine
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Katie
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Katie Devine
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outside member
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Hoffman
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Daniel
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Daniel Hoffman
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Advisory Committee
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outside member
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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theses
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2018
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2018-01
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2018
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eng
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Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) childhood cancer survivors (CCS) exhibit an increased risk for chronic disease states. Poor lifestyle behaviors characterized by lack of physical activity and unhealthful nutrition practices may further exacerbate this risk. This necessitates a need to develop interventions to prevent the manifestation of this delayed disease risk. PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy of a multicomponent 12-weel intervention, Fit Survivor, which combined 8-weeks of supervised resistance exercise (RE) and health education, a smartphone application, wearable activity monitor, and social media on strength, body composition, quality of life (QoL), and body-esteem. METHODS: A randomized controlled trial was conducted for 12-weeks with assessments performed pre and post intervention. Participants were randomized into experimental (EXP, N=9) or control (CON, N=10). Assessments included body fat percentage (BF%), bench press (BP), leg press (LP), quality of life (QoL), and body-esteem measures. EXP were provided the smartphone application, Fit Survivor with social media integrated into it, and a Fitbit Charge. EXP participated in 8-weeks of supervised resistance-band exercise and health education sessions. The EXP group was encouraged to continue using Fit Survivor for rest of the 12-week intervention. An analysis of variance was conducted with an alpha level of 0.05. Effect sizes were represented by Cohen’s d. RESULTS: A non-significant (p>0.05) increase was observed in CON for BF% and FM, but not in EXP. EXP demonstrated a non-significant (p>0.05) increase in FFM. EXP increased BP (CON: d=0.06, EXP: d=0.30) and LP (CON: d=0.13, EXP: d=0. 52) to a greater degree than CON. Most QoL and body-esteem measures were non-significantly reduced over the intervention. CONCLUSION: The intervention improved strength and potentially prevented an increase in BF%. However, QoL and body-esteem were shown to non-significantly decrease possibly due to an unintended burden caused by the intervention or a high psychosocial baseline functioning which caused a regression to the mean. Overall, Fit Survivor was shown to have beneficial effects with regards to body composition and strength with more research needed to elucidate its effects on psychosocial markers.
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Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 81 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Cancer in children
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by Nicholas Mackowski
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School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3VM4GGN
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Mackowski
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Nicholas
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2018-01-10 13:58:25
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Nicholas Mackowski
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Rutgers University. School of Graduate Studies
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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