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Table 2 Performed training session frequency, intensity, and time, adherence, and changes in physical fitness of the physical exercise training module of the tele-prehabilitation program

From: Feasibility of a tele-prehabilitation program in high-risk patients with colon or rectal cancer undergoing elective surgery: a feasibility study

Participant ID

Frequency

Intensity

Time

Treatment initiation intervals

Change in physical fitness between pre- (T0) and post-prehabilitation (T1) assessment

Number of sessions (% of prescribed)

Number of sessions with adequate intensity, number (%)

Combined exercise duration of all sessions, minutes (% of prescribed)

Time from endoscopy to start prehabilitation (days)

Time from start prehabilitation to surgery (days)

Time to exhaustion on the constant work rate test (s)

Repetitions on the 30-s chair-stand test (number)

4-m gait speed test (m/s)

T0

T1

Change (%)

T0

T1

Change (%)

T0

T1

Change (%)

1

19 (68%)

19 (100%)

640 (85%)

110a

58a

180

316

+ 136 (+ 76%)

10

14

+ 4 (+ 40%)

0.7

0.9

+ 0.2 (+ 29%)

2

5 (83%)

5 (100%)

159 (88%)

14

12

306

316

+ 10 (+ 3%)

14

18

+ 4 (+ 29%)

1.1

1.3

+ 0.2 (+ 18%)

3

13 (108%)

9 (69%)

254 (115%)

16

26

303

481

+ 178 (+ 59%)

8

10

+ 2 (+ 25%)

1.0

0.9

− 0.1 (− 10%)

4

10 (91%)

9 (90%)

349 (95%)

12

25

581

773

+ 192 (+ 33%)

13

18

+ 5 (+ 38%)

1.3

1.1

− 0.2 (− 15%)

5

13 (100%)

11 (85%)

449 (112%)

21

30

606b

304b

− 302 (− 50%)b

10b

16b

+ 6 (+ 60%)b

1.3b

1.4b

−

6

12 (100%)

12 (100%)

407 (113%)

11

28

326

364

+ 38 (+ 6%)

16

17

+ 1 (+ 6%)

1.3

1.2

− 0.1 (− 8%)

7

10 (100%)

7 (70%)

312 (104%)

7

21

260

237

− 23 (− 9%)

10

10

0 (0%)

1.0

–

–

8

6 (100%)

4 (67%)

177 (98%)

14

13

783

657

− 126 (− 16%)

13

16

+ 3 (23%)

1.4

1.6

+ 0.2 (+ 14%)

9

6 (100%)

5 (83%)

183 (102%)

15

16

427

459

+ 32 (+ 8%)

12

15

+ 3 (+ 25%)

1.4

1.6

+ 0.2 (+ 14%)

10

2 (67%)

2 (100%)

68 (76%)

14

6

–

–

–

12

–

–

1.0

–

–

11

13 (100%)

8 (62%)

477 (111%)

12

27

307

668

+ 361 (+ 85%)

19

19

0 (0%)

1.4

1.3

− 0.1 (− 7%)2

Total

109 (91%)

91 (84%)

3475 (100%)

           

Median

   

14c/14d

23c/25d

317

412

95 (+ 30%)

12

16

4 (+ 33%)

1.3

1.3

0.0 (0%)

  1. aParticipant received neoadjuvant treatment
  2. bParticipant had a general feeling of discomfort during post-prehabilitation assessment and therefore did not perform adequately
  3. cAll participants (n = 11)
  4. dExcluding the participant receiving neoadjuvant treatment (n = 10)
  5. Abbreviations: T0 pre-prehabilitation, T1 post-prehabilitation (1 or 2 days before surgery)