Predictors of enrollment in individual- and couple-based lifestyle intervention trials for cancer survivors.
Emily Cox-MartinJaejoon SongWendy Demark-WahnefriedElizabeth J LyonsKaren Basen-EngquistPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2018)
Although there was some overlap in predictors for enrollment between studies, many differential predictors were identified between individual versus couple-based study designs for lifestyle intervention in cancer survivors. Future lifestyle intervention studies for cancer survivors may benefit from targeting different predictors of enrollment based on study design to optimize recruitment. Additionally, understanding predictors may allow certain barriers to enrollment (i.e., symptom burden) to be directly addressed, making lifestyle intervention research more feasible and acceptable to difficult-to-recruit survivors.