Knowledge, attitudes, barriers, and practice of oncologists in promoting physical activity to cancer survivors: An international survey.

103Background: Few Survivors are meeting the American Cancer Society recommendations of 150-minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) per week. Despite patients' wishing to receive PA information from their oncologist, many do not receive PA guidance. Given that oncologists review their patients regularly and are perceived as authority figures, they are in a unique position to promote the uptake of durable PA. Future interventions that bypass the oncologist are unlikely to be scalable and hence there is a need to support oncologists to promote PA. The study aim was to investigate knowledge, attitudes, barriers and practices of oncologists toward PA in survivors, and the association between oncologists' own PA behaviour and PA promotion. Methods: Oncologists (n = 123) completed a survey based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Participants reported PA promotion behaviour, PA involvement, attitudes, intentions, social norm, perceived behavioural control (PBC), confidence and knowledge of ex...