Strengths and limitations
cancer
CANCER
A strength of the present study is that it is the first attempted RCT on a wilderness program for cancer survivors. Previous studies have investigated health effects of such programs among young adult cancer survivors, but in non-randomized and controlled study designs [Since this was a feasibility study with low power due to a small sample size, it is obvious that no conclusions can be drawn about the effectiveness of a wilderness program on the health and well-being of childhood and AYA cancer survivors. A limitation of the present study design was that it did not investigate the feasibility of including a third arm in the study that received no intervention, for example a wait-list control. Based on the previous RCT experience of the Norwegian research group [