Group discussions
Poster creation Poster presentation Collective discussion Introduction by a psychologist 5 groups of 8-9 1 critical incident / group Conclusions Training day:
General and theoretical information, practical PA sessions and an interactive poster presentation session
Subjects: 41 Raviva instructors and 2 PE students Poster presentation session:
Psycho-emotional aspects within Raviva groups (motivation, management of disease or death)
Data collection:
Analysis of the posters Questionnaire
Interviews of the organizers Informal observation
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
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
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
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
Purpose
Methods
Results
Conclusions
Ask detailed references to the first author (jerome.rompen@ulg.ac.be)
Difficulties Solutions 6,1 11,8 14,3 0,0 66,7 50,0 48,6 48,6 27,3 38,2 37,1 51,4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Important topics adressed Experiences sharing Active participation Interesting activity
Instructors’ opinion about the poster session
Totally disagree Disagree Agree Totally agree
0,0 8,3 17,2 6,5 35,3 62,5 55,2 54,8 64,7 29,2 27,6 38,7 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Relationships with pairs Difficulties highlighting Solutions highlighting Good practices sharing
Instructors’ opinion about the training day
Totally disagree Disagree Agree Totally agree
Examples of good practices have been shared !
15’ 25’ 20’ 15’
Highlights
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)
Raviva’s project:
Organization of a training day for its instructors Request of collaboration with SIGAPS - ULg
Introduction To be improved: Activity duration Time management Organizers’ opinion “Serious timing problems” “Poor organization” Participants’ opinion
“The allocated time was to short” “Allow at least one hour more for
