Theme 8: Enjoyable and facilitated by previous experiences
SAID
Enjoying participation in the prehabilitation program appeared to reinforce and facilitate adherence to exercise before surgery (e.g., ‘No, like I said, I feel great after. It’s a sense of accomplishment. So, I’m one step closer to the operation and one step more prepared for the operation.’, and ‘I found I felt better after doing cardio, as opposed to when I didn’t. It is good to do, for sure. Yeah, no it all felt good to do, for sure.’). Furthermore, having past experience with exercise appeared to further facilitate participation (e.g., ‘Well, you have to have a little bit of strength because I noticed with my sister some of the exercises I had been doing, I could do 20, and she had to stop after five or something like that.’, and ‘I think that was pretty good. The chair squats and that were some of the things I did before. And the calf raises and stuff like that I’ve done before.’).