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result not all responded to the second questionnaire. Two months after each course, a cohort of 38 attendees were contacted and asked whether the course influenced them to do physical activity in their daily routine. Results Answers to the first questionnaire were as follows: 42% from the attendees stated they do physical exercise occasionally, 34% performed physical exercise with high to very high frequency and 65% believed that physically activity will help them during the treatment of the disease, but despite this belief, 93% stopped physical activity from the moment they knew they were sick. Regarding the answers to the end of day questionnaire, 72% of the 64 attendees that answered said that during the course, their knowledge on the importance of physical activity was raised and that they would be more inclined to do physical activity at home. From the phone calls performed two months after the course, it was found that 80% from the attendees did continue to do physical activity at home and 39% signed up for some kind of group activities involving physical exercise. Conclusion The results of the project show that holding courses aiming to emphasize the importance of physical activity during the cancer treatment, may raise patient awareness receiving radiation therapy. We believe in the need to encourage physical activity in patients that have cancer. This is an on-going project that has to be further developed for the wellbeing of the patients. EP-2394 Patient-seminar before radiation of prostate cancer O. Fremsæter 1 , E.J. Stavang 1 1 Ålesund Hospital, Kreftavdelinga, Ålesund, Norway Purpose or Objective Provide essential information for prostate cancer patients who are to undergo curative radiotherapy, and thereby improve their feeling of “good global health” and degree of “good coping skills”. “Good global health” is defined as the share answering excellent, very good or good on the following question: “Mostly, how will you define your health status”? “Good coping skills” is defined as the share answering excellent, very good or good on the following question: “How do you consider your ability of self-care”? Material and Methods A total of 90 patients and 36 relatives partitioned into 8 single one-day seminars, have participated. Both patients receiving radical radiotherapy against their prostate glands, and patients given post-operative radiation treatment after undergoing radical prostatectomy, were included. All participants were served a seven hour interdisciplinary program including lectures with themes listed in image 1. All participants answered a questionnaire concerning the seminar program at the end of the course day. All patients answered a Patient Activation Measure -questionnaire (PAM) before participating in this seminar, and respectively 4 and 12 months post seminar.

Results At this time we possess data including 12 months follow up for seminar nr.1-3 (table 1). Only data from seminar 1-3 is presented. Patients receiving post-operative radiotherapy weren’t included before seminar number four, because we wanted the attending group of patients to be as homogeneous as possible. The results report of better “good global health” 12 months after seminar-day, compared with data registered before attending the seminar. Results concerning the degree of “good coping skills” are more inconclusive. Only patients participating on seminar nr.2 report an improvement concerning “good coping skills” at 12 month follow up. Nevertheless, the overall results from seminar nr.1-3 concerning “good coping skills” are good.

Conclusion Providing patients and relatives good information before, and during radiation treatment, will have significant influence on the patient’s perception of their feeling of “good global health”. Arranging seminars with an interdisciplinary professional program seems to be an adequate method preparing and informing prostate cancer patients. The results so far show that our seminar has less influence on patients feeling of “good coping skills”, which we assume may be a direct consequence to both short term- and long term side effects.