Relationships Between Exercise and Emotion Regulation on Physical Activity in Frail Older Adults

Sedentary Lifestyle Clinical Trial

Official title:

Does Exercise-induced Improvements in Emotion Regulation Enhance Daily Physical Activity and Well-being in Frail Sedentary Older Adults?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03514160
• Other study ID #: G00004606
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2015
• Est. completion date: January 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2017
• Source: Northeastern University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Frailty in older adults is a consequence of physical inactivity, which leads to poor physical function, disability and poor health outcomes. Nearly 60% of older adults report inactivity. Emotion regulation strategies have affective, cognitive and social consequences. Positive emotions are significantly associated with a higher ability to perform activities of daily living. There is a gap in the understanding of how exercise influences the selection of emotion regulation strategies (avoidant vs. adaptive) in frail older adults. The investigators propose to examine the interactions between regular exercise, selection of emotional regulation strategies, and daily physical activity in frail sedentary older adults.

Description:

1. Determine the choice of emotion regulation strategies used by frail sedentary older adults (60+ years; n=24). Frailty will be defined as a gait speed <0.8 m/sec.

Hypothesis: Frail sedentary older adults will choose avoidant emotion regulation strategies.

2. Examine whether a peer-led, community-based, group-exercise program lasting 12-weeks improves the selection of emotion regulation strategies in frail sedentary older adults as compared to those receiving support services (12/group).

Hypothesis: Exercise will result in higher use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies than support services.

3. Examine if improved selection of emotional regulation strategies with exercise translates into increased daily physical activity and reduced sedentary behavior by frail older adults as compared to those receiving support services.

Hypothesis: Exercise will significantly increase daily physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior than support services.

4. Determine if improvements in emotional regulation strategy selection and daily physical activity levels positively influence health and well-being (i.e. health status, physical function, mood, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and sense of loneliness and isolation).

Hypothesis: Exercise-induced improvements in emotion regulation and increased daily physical activity will be associated with improved overall health and well-being as compared to support services.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: January 2016
• Est. primary completion date: August 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Community-dwelling older adults 60+ years of age

• Men and women

• Frail older adults with impaired mobility (gait speed < 0.8 m/sec)

• Sedentary older adults

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to give consent

• Unable to exercise

• Unable to travel to the community site

• Unstable chronic conditions

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mobility Limitation
• Older Adults
• Sedentary Lifestyle

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Group exercise
Group exercise based on the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Northeastern University	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Northeastern University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Seven-day free living physical activity	Number of steps per day were objectively measured with an activity monitor worn for a seven-day period	12 weeks