Table 2.

Responses to Selected Survey Instruments Pre- and Post-Exercise in Colorectal Cancer Survivors

Questionnaires	Pre (n=7)	Post (n=7)	p-value
SF-36
Physical	48.3 ± 9.8	51.7 ± 7.2	0.040
Mental	53.4 ± 5.0	54.8 ± 3.9	0.444
FACT-C	108.9 ± 23.1	113.6 ± 15.7	0.407
FACIT-F	131.6 ± 25.8	136.7 ± 19	0.262
MSKCC Bowel Function
Frequency	22.9 ± 3.2	24.1 ± 3.7	0.438
Diet	15.6 ± 2.7	15.0 ± 5.0	0.618
Urgency	18.6 ± 1.7	16.4 ± 5.8	0.586
Total	72.9 ± 8.7	72.1 ± 11.6	0.938
BSI	2.9 ± 5.0	3.6 ± 5.6	0.283

Table 2 presents means ± SD from the QoL (SF-36), fatigue (FACIT-F) and symptom questionnaires (BFI, BSI, FACT-C) from the exercise study (n=7). The 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and subscales including physical and mental scores; Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Colorectal Scale (FACT-C); Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F); Memorial Sloan Kettering Bowel Function Instrument (BFI) and subscales including frequency, diet, urgency and the total score; and the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Two-tailed p-values <0.05 were considered significant based on paired t-tests (FACT-C, FACIT, and BSI) or Wilcoxon signed rank tests (SF-36 and BFI) if the data was not normally distributed.