Purpose: To explore built and natural environment barriers and facilitators to walking for exercise in cancer survivors.
Participants & setting: Cancer survivors (N = 7) living in rural, suburban, and small urban neighborhoods in central Virginia.
Methodologic approach: The authors used a qualitative descriptive design with photovoice to explore the cancer survivors' experience with residential walkability.
Findings: The following three themes were identified from the data.
Implications for nursing: Clinicians should consider an evaluation of the built and natural environment to support walking in cancer survivors. These findings may be used in conjunction with known individual-level barriers to physical activity to develop guidance for oncology nurses to help survivors safely achieve physical activity goals.
Keywords: cancer survivors; exercise; physical activity; walking.