Evaluating the Impact of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal on Physical Mobility Outcomes

Mobility Limitation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluating the Impact of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal on Knowledge, Behavioural Intentions and Health Behaviours Related to Physical Mobility

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02947230
• Other study ID #: 2017-04
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 7, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: March 2019
• Source: McMaster University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal (the Portal) was launched in 2014 to increase public access to trustworthy health information. The Portal helps readers to access evidence-based resources; identify trustworthy messages; and understand scientific findings. Now the investigators want to know whether using the Portal changes what people know and do to stay healthy and mobile.

This project will help us to:

1. Understand how middle aged and older adults (age 40+) use the Portal to obtain information about maintaining and improving mobility

2. Evaluate whether use of the Portal results in a change in knowledge about maintaining and improving mobility, or change in lifestyle behaviours that may help maintain or improve mobility with age.

Description:

Physically active lifestyles are important for health aging, but most Canadians do not meet published physical activity guidelines. This may be in part due to lack of access to evidence-based information on mobility and aging, and knowledge of strategies to maintain or improve mobility with age. The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal (the Portal) was launched in 2014 to increase public access to trustworthy health information. Now the investigators want to know if easy-to-understand evidence-based messages change what people know and do to stay healthy and mobile.

Sequential, explanatory mixed-methods design consisting of a two-armed randomized controlled trial and a qualitative process study to explore quantitative findings in depth.

Consent forms and a baseline survey will be sent to all interested participants. Following baseline data collection, participants will be stratified by previous Portal use, and randomized to the Knowledge Translation (KT) intervention or control group. During the 12-week KT intervention, intervention group participants will have access to the Portal and will receive mobility- focused weekly email alerts including blog posts and evidence summaries relevant to mobility and be invited to follow a Twitter and Facebook feed; a unique hashtag will be created to identify and collate relevant mobility information. Control group participants will be able to access the Portal in a 'self-serve' fashion, but will not receive targeted KT strategies.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 535
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 1, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mobility Limitation

Intervention

Other:
• Tailored Knowledge Translation
Tailored knowledge translation strategies specific to maintaining and increasing physical mobility with age.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	McMaster University	Hamilton	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
McMaster University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (2)

Neil-Sztramko S, Smith-Turchyn J, Richardson J, Dobbins M. Impact of a Knowledge Translation Intervention on Physical Activity and Mobility in Older Adults (the Move4Age Study): Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Feb 11;22(2):e15125. do — View Citation

Neil-Sztramko SE, Smith-Turchyn J, Richardson J, Dobbins M. A Mobility-Focused Knowledge Translation Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Physical Activity: Process Evaluation of the Move4Age Study. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Jun 20;21(6):e13965. doi: 10. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Participant satisfaction	Collected using qualitative interviews	12 weeks
Primary	Website analytics	Understanding participant engagement with the Portal and knowledge translation strategies	12 weeks
Primary	Email analytics	Understanding participant engagement with the Portal and knowledge translation strategies	12 weeks
Primary	Google analytics	Understanding participant engagement with the Portal and knowledge translation strategies	12 weeks
Secondary	Knowledge Questionnaire	Participants knowledge of mobility recommendations and guidelines	12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
Secondary	Beliefs Questionnaire	Participants beliefs about the importance of maintaining and improving mobility for health	12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
Secondary	Intentions Questionnaire	Participants intentions to engage in lifestyle behaviours related to maintaining or improving mobility	12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
Secondary	Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity	To quantify self-reported physical activity	12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
Secondary	Manty Preclinical Mobility Disability Scale	Mobility limitation	12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention