The Effectiveness of Physical Activity Monitoring and Distance Counseling in an Occupational Health Setting

Physical Inactivity Clinical Trial

— CoAct  

Official title:

The Effectiveness of Physical Activity Monitoring and Distance Counselling in an Occupational Health Setting - a Randomised Controlled Trial (CoAct)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00994565
• Other study ID #: CoAct1RCT
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 13, 2009
• Last updated: June 21, 2011
• Start date: August 2009
• Est. completion date: November 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: Helsinki University of Technology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Finland: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The CoAct study is investigating a novel lifestyle intervention, aimed at the working population, with daily activity monitoring and distance counseling via telephone and secure web messages. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle counseling on the level of physical activity in an occupational health setting. The purposes include also analyzing the potential effects of changes in physical activity on productivity at work and sickness absence, and health care costs.

Description:

CoAct is a randomized controlled trial with two arms: a control group and intervention group with daily activity monitoring and distance counseling. The intervention focuses on lifestyle modification and takes 12 months. The study population consists of those volunteering from 1100 eligible employees from a Finnish insurance company. The primary outcomes are change in physical activity measured in MET hours per week, work productivity and sickness absence, and health care utilization. Secondary outcomes include various physiological measures. Cost-effectiveness analysis will also be performed. The outcomes will be measured by questionnaires at baseline, after 6, 12, and 24 months, and sickness absence will be obtained from the employer's registers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 544
• Est. completion date: November 2010
• Est. primary completion date: November 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 61 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 years or older

• Paid employment of at least 8 hours a week

• Not scheduled to retire in the next two years or have applied for disability pension

• Have completed a health risk appraisal and physical testing

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Diagnosis or treatment of cancer

• Any disorder that makes physical activity impossible

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Physical Inactivity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Activity monitoring and distance counseling
The physical activity monitoring and distance counseling concept combines the use of a personal activity monitor with web-based tailored physical activity advice. Users can interactively plan and evaluate their own activity advice based on their actual PA scores and their PA preferences and goals.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Finland	BIT Research Center	Espoo

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Helsinki University of Technology	Pohjola Insurance Ltd, The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Finland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Physical Activity		One year	No
Secondary	Health related productivity loss		One year	No
Secondary	Healthcare utilization		One Year	No