Schedule Intervention to Increase Sustainable Walking Activity in Midlife Working Adults

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Using a Schedule Intervention to Increase Sustainable Walking Activity in Midlife

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03272438
• Other study ID #: BrandeisU
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2019
• Est. completion date: June 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2018
• Source: Brandeis University
• Contact: Jane Ebert, PhD
• Phone: 7817362294
• Email: jebert[@]brandeis.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

While people commonly understand that regular physical exercise conveys many health benefits, only 20% of U.S. adults take regular exercise and they have difficulty maintaining new healthy behaviors. The goal of this study is to use a planning intervention to help establish and maintain a daily step regimen in working midlife adults. The investigators will ask participants to plan when, where, and how to act on a daily walking goal in conjunction with a scheduling intervention to increase the chances that they will maintain this new regimen. The effectiveness of three different scheduling interventions will be compared.

Description:

While people commonly understand that regular physical exercise conveys many health benefits, only 20% of U.S. adults take regular exercise and they have difficulty maintaining new healthy behaviors. The goal of this study is to use a planning intervention to help establish and maintain a daily step regimen in working midlife adults. The investigators will ask participants to plan when, where, and how to act on a daily walking goal in conjunction with a scheduling intervention to increase the chances that they will maintain this new regimen. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: consistent schedule, inconsistent schedule, no schedule. All participants will be provided with an accelerometer to measure their daily activity and as a behavioral support for our intervention and they will be given a step goal. The goal given to each individual will be to increase immediately their daily steps to a level based on recommended guidelines (e.g., Hill, Wyatt, Reed, and Peters, 2003). The investigators will test which version of the scheduling intervention is most successful for increasing and maintaining step counts. It is predicted that participants in the consistent schedule condition will increase their step count more than those participants in the no schedule control condition, and that they will maintain this activity for a longer period after the intervention period is complete than those participants in the inconsistent schedule condition.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 108
• Est. completion date: June 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 40 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently working 3 or more days (or 24 hours or more) per week;

• physically minimally active (as determined using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)

Exclusion Criteria:

• a recent (within the past 6 months) cardiovascular event, or fall.

• anyone who already exercises regularly, 3 times a week or more for at least 30 minutes, will be excluded

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Physical Activity

Intervention

Device:
• Accelerometer
Participants use an accelerometer to monitor their steps activity

Behavioral:
• Step goal
Participants are given a daily step goal to aim for
• Consistent contexts
Participants plan to take steps in contexts that are similar from day to day
• Inconsistent contexts
Participants plan to take steps in contexts that vary from day to day

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Brandeis University	Waltham	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Brandeis University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Hill JO, Wyatt HR, Reed GW, Peters JC. Obesity and the environment: where do we go from here? Science. 2003 Feb 7;299(5608):853-5. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Physical activity	Number of steps taken each day as measured on accelerometer	Daily for 9 weeks
Secondary	Measures of well being	Feelings of satisfaction with life, perceived stress, mood and sleep quality	Before and after intervention (5 weeks apart), and at followup (4 weeks later)
Secondary	Physical activity self-efficacy and ease	Perceived ability and ease of being physically active	Weekly for 4 weeks