{"doi":"10.3390/life13020574","title":"Assessing the Suitability of a Virtual ‘Pink Warrior’ for Older Breast Cancer Survivors during COVID-19: A Pilot Study","abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the conduct of in-person physical activity (PA) interventions among older survivors of BC, who need such interventions to stay active and prevent functional decline. We tested the feasibility of virtually delivering an exergame-based PA intervention to older BC survivors. We enrolled 20 female BC survivors ≥55 years and randomly assigned them to two groups. The intervention group (Pink Warrior 2) received 12 weekly virtual exergame sessions with behavioral coaching, survivorship navigation support, and a Fitbit for self-monitoring. The control group received 12 weekly phone-based survivorship discussion sessions and wore a Mi Band 3. Feasibility was evaluated by rates of recruitment (≥0.92 participants/center/month), retention (≥80%), and group attendance (≥10 sessions), percentage of completed virtual assessments, and number of technology-related issues and adverse events. Intervention acceptability was measured by participants' ratings on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The recruitment rate was 1.93. The retention and attendance rates were 90% and 88% (≥10 sessions), respectively. Ninety-six percent completed virtual assessments without an adverse event. Acceptability was high (≥4). The intervention met benchmarks for feasibility. Additional research is needed to further understand the impact of virtually delivered PA interventions on older BC survivors.","journal":"Life","year":2023,"id":363564,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":7,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9582,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":441760,"name":"Michael C Robertson","orcid":"0000-0002-2240-014X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":954799,"name":"Ursela Christopherson","orcid":"0000-0002-7764-1063","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":763009,"name":"Stephanie J. Wells","orcid":"0000-0002-5165-697X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1117999,"name":"Zakkoyya H. Lewis","orcid":"0000-0001-8645-6495","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":326593,"name":"Jinbing Bai","orcid":"0000-0001-6726-5714","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":419822,"name":"Michael D. Swartz","orcid":"0000-0003-3953-8775","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1118000,"name":"H. Colleen Silva","orcid":"0000-0002-7077-5675","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1118001,"name":"Eloïsa Martínez","orcid":"0000-0002-6191-6528","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":441761,"name":"Elizabeth Lyons","orcid":"0000-0003-1695-2236","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":528452,"name":"Maria C. Swartz","orcid":"0000-0002-4069-3089","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":80,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:14:32.510714Z","pmid":"36836931","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}