Table 3.

Overview of significant predictors of exercise intervention adherence found in multivariable analysis

	During Treatment		After Treatment
Exercise Intervention Adherence	High	Low	High	Low
Socio‐demographic factors
Being married		49		51
Gender (male)	59, a		59, a
Close location/center	46, 47
Having children at home	55, a
More knowledge and skills of exercises			51
High intensity exercise group assignment		46
More family support			51
More feedback by trainers			51
Low employment status		58 a		58 a
Medical factors
Extensive treatment protocol		46 ; 58 a		50 ; 58 a
Pretreatment fatigue		49 ; 55, a
Advanced disease stage		47
Cancer types other than breast cancer				52
Low psychological distress			52
Exercise limitations due to cancer treatment		46
Endocrine symptoms		46
High depression		46, 47
Physiological and physical factors
High physical fitness	49
High age	45 ; 57 a	48	57 a
High VO2 peak	45, 46, 47
High submaximal endurance capacity			55, a
Low BMI			53
Behavioral factors
High exercise stage of change	48
High exercise history	57 a		54 ; 55, a ; 57 a ; 59, a
High self‐efficacy			52 ; 54
Being a nonsmoker			52
High previous exercise adherence			51 ; 55, a
High alcohol consumption				50
High exercise motivation	58 a		53 ; 58 a
High role functioning	56 a		56 a
High mid‐treatment mood disturbance		49

^aExercise intervention covered both time periods, during and after treatment.

Cancer type: Black, multiple cancer types; Red, breast cancer; Blue, prostate cancer; Purple, head and neck cancer; Orange, lymphoma; Green, colorectal cancer.

Abbreviations: VO₂ peak, peak rate of oxygen consumption during incremental exercise; BMI, body mass index.