Education of instructors of a physical activity program for cancer

Education of instructors of a physical activity program for cancer
patients and survivors: planning and evaluation of a poster
presentation session
ROMPEN Jérôme, KORYCKI Marta, ORTMANS Sabine, SCHOONBROODT Annick, CLAUSSE Fabienne & CLOES Marc
Highlights
 Raviva: A Belgian physical activity (PA) program for people with cancer and/or cancer survivors
 Purpose: To describe and evaluate an interactive poster presentation session aiming to train the instructors of Raviva
 Results: All participants found the method interesting; they considered that adequate topics were addressed and that they could share some experiences
with their peers; however, some problems of timing and organization were pointed out
Methods
Introduction
 Training day:
 General and theoretical information, practical PA sessions and an interactive
poster presentation session
 Subjects: 41 Raviva instructors and 2 PE students
 Raviva: Belgian PA program for cancer patients and survivors
(Fondation contre le Cancer – www.cancer.be)
 Raviva instructors:
 Inconstant professional preparation and experiences
 No compulsory specific training programs such those proposed
by the ACSM (Schmitz et al., 2010)
 Are interested in the participation in a specific training day
 Are interested in the participation in discussion groups and
experience sharing with peers (Rompen, Korycki & Cloes,
2015)
 Importance of interacting with colleagues (Erickson et al.,
2008)
 Poster presentation session:
 Psycho-emotional aspects within Raviva groups (motivation, management of
disease or death)
15’
25’
Introduction by
a psychologist
Group discussions
Poster creation
20’
15’
Poster presentation
Conclusions
Difficulties
 Raviva’s project:
 Organization of a training day for its instructors
 Request of collaboration with SIGAPS - ULg
Solutions
Collective discussion
5 groups of 8-9
1 critical incident
/ group
 Data collection:
 Analysis of the posters
 Questionnaire
 Interviews of the organizers
 Informal observation
Purpose
 To describe and evaluate an interactive poster presentation
session implemented during the training
 To identify good practices focusing on psycho-emotional aspects
within Raviva groups
Results
Instructors’ opinion about the poster session
Interesting activity 0,0
Active participation
51,4
14,3
Experiences sharing
Important topics adressed
48,6
To be improved:
48,6
11,8
50,0
6,1
38,2
66,7
0
10
Totally disagree
20
30
40
Disagree
 Activity duration
 Time management
37,1
27,3
50
Agree
60
70
80
90
100
Totally agree
Instructors’ opinion about the training day
Good practices sharing
6,5
Solutions highlighting
54,8
17,2
Difficulties highlighting
0
29,2
35,3
10
Totally disagree
20
Conclusions
27,6
62,5
Relationships with pairs 0,0
64,7
30
Disagree
Organizers’ opinion
 “Serious timing
problems”
 “Poor organization”
38,7
55,2
8,3
Participants’ opinion
 “The allocated time was to short”
 “Allow at least one hour more for
that”
40
50
Agree
60
70
80
Totally agree
Examples of good practices have been shared !
Ask detailed references to the first author ([email protected])
90
100
 Interesting training method and satisfaction of participants
 Importance for Raviva instructors to share experiences with
peers and interact with their colleagues
 Appropriate general concept
 Recommendations:
 Longer period (at least 2 hours)
 Best organization and control of timing
 Attention to the involvement of all instructors
 Importance of questioning the participants about their needs
before the training