Why the study?
Knowledge about late effects can promote positive health behaviors and autonomy in childhood cancer survivors, and cardiotoxicity is a major source of morbidity that can be mitigated through exercise.
Adolescent childhood cancer survivors at high risk for cardiotoxicity have poor knowledge of their late effects risks and low rates of adequate physical activity, highlighting the need for targeted educational interventions.
Childhood cancer survivors’ (CCS) knowledge about late effects can promote positive health behaviors and autonomy. Cardiotoxicity is a major source of morbidity, which can be mitigated through exercise. Descriptive and Fisher’s exact statistics were used to characterize health knowledge and physical activity in CCS ≥13 years at high risk for cardiotoxicity. Of 16 CCS (mean age 17.0 ± 2.1 years), 3 (18.8%) identified previous anthracycline exposure, and 5 (31.2%) had adequate physical activity. Of survivors <18 years, 82% had poor late effects knowledge (p = 0.005). Knowledge was not associated with physical activity (p = 0.60). Interventions are needed to improve late effects knowledge in adolescent CCS.
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