Table 3.
Overall and sub-group-specific physical activity preferences of cancer survivors since the start of the pandemic (N = 493)
| Type of activity | Overall n (%) |
Demographic and medical subgroup preferences | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderator | Group | n | % | Group | n | % | p | ||
| Walking | 407 (82.6) | Age | ≥ 49 | 209 | 85.0 | < 49 | 183 | 79.6 | 0.123 |
| Gender | Women | 291 | 83.9 | Men | 113 | 79.0 | 0.200 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 181 | 90.5 | No | 226 | 77.1 | < 0.001 | ||
| Cycling | 94 (19.1) | Age | ≥ 49 | 43 | 17.5 | < 49 | 47 | 20.4 | 0.411 |
| Gender | Women | 61 | 17.6 | Men | 32 | 22.4 | 0.218 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 59 | 29.5 | No | 35 | 11.9 | < 0.001 | ||
| Flexibility exercises | 89 (18.1) | Age | ≥ 49 | 46 | 18.7 | < 49 | 42 | 18.3 | 0.902 |
| Gender | Women | 58 | 16.7 | Men | 31 | 21.7 | 0.195 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 47 | 23.5 | No | 42 | 14.3 | 0.009 | ||
| Running | 77 (15.6) | Age | ≥ 49 | 28 | 11.4 | < 49 | 48 | 20.9 | 0.005 |
| Gender | Women | 43 | 12.4 | Men | 34 | 23.8 | 0.002 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 53 | 26.5 | No | 24 | 8.2 | < 0.001 | ||
| Yoga | 76 (15.4) | Age | ≥ 49 | 22 | 8.9 | < 49 | 54 | 23.5 | < 0.001 |
| Gender | Women | 73 | 21.0 | Men | 3 | 2.1 | < 0.001 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 38 | 19.0 | No | 38 | 13.0 | 0.069 | ||
| Resistance training | 71 (14.4) | Age | ≥ 49 | 34 | 13.8 | < 49 | 36 | 15.7 | 0.573 |
| Gender | Women | 49 | 14.1 | Men | 22 | 15.4 | 0.718 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 41 | 20.5 | No | 30 | 10.2 | 0.001 | ||
| Bed/chair exercises | 50 (10.1) | Age | ≥ 49 | 25 | 10.2 | < 49 | 23 | 10.0 | 0.953 |
| Gender | Women | 38 | 11.0 | Men | 12 | 8.4 | 0.395 | ||
| Physically active | Yes | 17 | 8.5 | No | 33 | 11.3 | 0.318 | ||