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Background: Mobile health (mHealth) may be an ideal solution for breast cancer (BC) patients in China to access weight management interventions. User retention and engagement are the main challenges faced by mHealth applications. A user persona, which is a user-centered design process, can lead to the development of mHealth that is more acceptable to the needs of target users. This study aimed to investigate the variety of experiences in weight management and the behavioral preferences of BC patients receiving chemotherapy to develop users' personal information and persona development for the design and implementation of mHealth interventions. Methods: Sixteen individual semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with BC patients receiving chemotherapy. We employed the thematic analysis method to analyze the interview transcripts in NVivo 11 software. The themes obtained from the analysis were used as the subdomains of personas. A proforma was designed to extract each participant's experience in each subdomain. Patients who exhibited similar experience in subdomains were grouped into a persona using affinity diagrams. The personas were named according to their prominent features. A questionnaire survey was conducted to validate the personas and to test whether the personas that were generated from the qualitative interview data were applicable to the Chinese population with BC. Results: Four themes were identified as subdomains of weight management personas: the perception of weight management while undergoing chemotherapy, symptoms and emotional disturbance, changes in diet and exercise, and health literacy and information seeking. Five personas were ultimately obtained: (1) positive weight controllers, (2) patients who were inactive due to fatigue, (3) young patients who avoided communication, (4) overweight patients with treatment priority, and (5) patients who engaged in irregular exercise. Finally, the quantitative study showed that 51.58% of patients chose one of these five personas to represent themselves in weight management. None of the patient reported selecting options that were not explicitly outlined in the questionnaire and provided personalized descriptions of their weight management characteristics. Conclusions: The selected personas were developed from in-depth interviews on biopsychosocial areas. They highlight different weight management patterns in Chinese BC patients and provide implications for both the design of mHealth systems and traditional interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aims: To describe and synthesize diverse empirical evidence regarding physical activity (PA) in the context of advanced breast cancer (ABC). Design: Integrative review guided by the work of Whittemore and Knafl (2005). Data sources: Six electronic databases were systematically searched to identify relevant literature published between January 2007–June 2019. Review methods: Abstracts of papers that met the inclusion criteria were reviewed by two researchers and full texts of eligible papers were assessed. Data were extracted by two independent researchers and inter‐rater reliability of data extraction established. Quality of papers was evaluated using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Data were organized according to comprehensive thematic analysis and the biobehavioural model for the study of exercise interventions. Results: Of the 532 abstracts, 18 studies met the inclusion criteria which included six randomized controlled trials, one quantitative non‐randomized study, seven quantitative descriptive studies, three mixed method studies and one qualitative study. Results from studies enrolled fell into four domains: PA performance and its influence on survival; barriers and preferences for PA; interventions to enhance PA; perceived benefits of PA from qualitative feedback. Conclusion: Evidence suggests that ABC patients are physically inactive. Main barriers of PA are less aerobic fitness and heavy symptom burden. Simple, tailored and specialist‐supervised PA is preferred by ABC patients. Form of joint self‐instructed and group accompanying is advocated as well. PA intervention programmes identified in this review vary on type, intensity, duration and frequency, while generally, are found to be feasible, safe and beneficial to patients' physical and psychosocial well‐being. Impact: The results propose tailored, supervised, group‐based PA programmes are in urgent need for ABC patients. Clinical professionals should manage more feasible and safer PA interventions to help improve patients' overall health. More research with rigorous methodology design is warranted to explore PA's effect on long‐term health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]