Enhancing Well-Being Through Exercise During Old Age

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: Enhancing Well-Being Through Exercise During Old Age

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Determine the feasibility of adapting Fit & Strong!, an evidence-based group physical activity and health education program, to include affect and mood-related content and of employing this intervention among older adults with a range of depressive symptoms.

Clinical Trial Description

The specific aims of this pilot are to use a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a wait list control design to: 1) Determine the feasibility of adapting Fit & Strong! to include affect and mood-related content and of employing this intervention among older adults with a range of depressive symptoms. 2) Begin to determine whether Fit & Strong! is efficacious as an approach for improving positive affect, reducing negative affect, decreasing symptoms of depression, and improving cognition among older adults. 3) Explore the relationship between negative/positive affect and symptoms of depression and maintenance of physical activity between baseline and 2 months, in order to determine whether improved positive affect and reduced negative affect and depression and improved cognition are associated with an increase in physical activity. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Osteoarthritis

• NCT number: NCT04536727
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2019
• Completion date: February 28, 2020