Motor Activity Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Healthy Staff Initiative Study: Examining Exercise, Health Coaching and Meditation for University Employees: a Randomized Trial
There is evidently great potential in implementing workplace health promotion programs, but more randomized trials are needed to determine which interventions are worksite-effective in helping to decrease inactive behaviors and increase engagement in healthy lifestyle activities. For employers, it could mean improving the health and productivity of employees. For workers, especially those in physically and/or psychologically demanding positions, it could mean developing strength, muscular endurance and agility to reduce musculoskeletal pain while developing the stress reduction skills that reduce long-term sickness and absenteeism risks. While changing behavior in a complex workplace is, as seen in multiple studies, difficult due to the need to change workplace and organizational culture between employers and employees, this study aims to identify the effectiveness of workplace interventions in relation to counseling for university employees to increase overall work fitness without affecting any hierarchal interactions at the work site. Simply put, the investigators will examine the benefits of a workplace exercise and mindfulness (two-prong) intervention (in combination) vs. a group who just receive a workplace exercise intervention. Both interventions will be guided by health coaches. Given the limited research with health coaching and workplace interventions for university workers, the aim is to contribute to a developing research literature. This study is geared to engage university employees at their workplace over a 3 month period. Participants will be assessed through pre and post physical and psychological measures and will also undergo semi-structured interviews (SSI).
There is evidently great potential in implementing workplace health promotion programs, but more randomized trials are needed to determine which interventions are worksite-effective in helping to decrease inactive behaviors and increase engagement in healthy lifestyle activities. For employers, it could mean improving the health and productivity of employees. For workers, especially those in physically and/or psychologically demanding positions, it could mean developing strength, muscular endurance and agility to reduce musculoskeletal pain while developing the stress reduction skills that reduce long-term sickness and absenteeism risks. While changing behavior in a complex workplace is, as seen in multiple studies, difficult due to the need to change workplace and organizational culture between employers and employees, this study aims to identify the effectiveness of workplace interventions in relation to counseling for university employees to increase overall work fitness without affecting any hierarchal interactions at the work site. Simply put, the investigators will examine the benefits of a workplace exercise and mindfulness (two-prong) intervention (in combination) vs. a group who just receive a workplace exercise intervention. Both interventions will be guided by health coaches. Given the limited research with health coaching and workplace interventions for university workers, the aim is to contribute to a developing research literature. This study is geared to engage university employees at their workplace over a 3 month period. Participants will be assessed through pre and post physical and psychological measures and will also undergo semi-structured interviews (SSI). The investigators hypothesize that making available these various fitness and well-being programs for university employees will effectively improve their overall fitness (peak VO2) and psychological health (stress, depression, anxiety, work satisfaction), making them more efficient, positive and work-productive. Specifically, the investigators hypothesize that the exercise and mindfulness meditation group will demonstrate significant improvements when compared to the group solely receiving exercise-oriented health coaching. Improvements will be seen across all measures of physical (such as VO2 peak and BMI) and psychological (such as depression, stress, anxiety, work-life balance) function and will be sustained at 3 month follow-up, indicating a more effective means of initiating fitness at the workplace ;
Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
---|---|---|---|
Completed |
NCT06315036 -
Effects of Developmental Gymnastics on Preschoolers' Motor Skills
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT02915913 -
Effects of Exercise Training on Cognitive Function and Neurotrophic Factors in Overweight Adults
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03162484 -
Physical Activity and Chronic Acquired Brain Injury
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT02329262 -
A Skills-based RCT for Physical Activity Using Peer Mentors
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT02158130 -
Effects of Aerobic Exercise Detraining
|
N/A | |
Terminated |
NCT01404039 -
Investigating Motor Cortex Processing for Pain Modulation
|
Phase 1 | |
Completed |
NCT01188044 -
Validating Accelerometers to Study Physical Activity of Toddlers
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT01697124 -
The Children in Action Feasibility Study
|
N/A | |
Not yet recruiting |
NCT04035863 -
Effects of Photobiomodulation on Superficial Sensitivity and Muscle Activity of Individuals With Myelomeningocele
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03695523 -
PLAY (PhysicaL ActivitY) Policy Study
|
N/A | |
Active, not recruiting |
NCT05012241 -
The Reliability of the Nine Hole Peg Test in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
|
||
Recruiting |
NCT03826030 -
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Post-stroke Motor Recovery
|
Phase 2 | |
Completed |
NCT05033197 -
Physical Activity, Cognition, Motor Skills, and Well-beings
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03146169 -
Training Program for Community Health Campaign: Fitter Families Project
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT03166020 -
Evaluation of a Video-ludic Re-education of the Paretic Upper Limb in Chronic Hemipartic Patients Post Cerebral Vascular Accident
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT02264275 -
Influence of Aerobic Exercise Training (AET) on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Children and Adolescents
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT02432924 -
Using Combined Instantaneous and Multidimensional Feedback to Support a Change in Physical Activity Behaviour
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT01697475 -
Text-Messaging to Motivate Walking in Older African Americans
|
N/A | |
Completed |
NCT04547569 -
Somesthesic Role of the Ventro-lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Speech Motor Learning
|
N/A | |
Recruiting |
NCT05010993 -
Establishing Czech Norms of Selected Standardized Tests
|