Barriers to Physical Activity in People With Type 2 Diabetes — Rxercise  

Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Trial

Official title: Mediators of Perceived Exercise Effort in Type 2 Diabetes - Barriers to Physical Activity

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators plan to learn more about how different levels of exercise feel to people with Type 2 Diabetes and how it feels to people without Type 2 Diabetes. This study team will also look at what causes exercise to feel harder or easier to people with and without Type 2 Diabetes. The investigators will also compare the potential benefits of supervised exercise training to that of diabetes education/blood sugar monitoring.

Clinical Trial Description

Exercise is a potent therapy to reduce cardiovascular mortality in Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Although exercise is a cornerstone of treatment for T2D, people with T2D are more sedentary than similarly obese people without diabetes, for reasons that are unclear. Interventions which combined behavioral support and physical activity prescriptions successfully increased physical activity levels for people with T2D and at-risk for T2D. However, the program components which mediated increased physical activity were combined and thus the individual benefits of each component remain unknown. Given the success of these combined programs, it appears behavioral support and other psychological factors may play an important role. The study investigators are interested in the predictors of physical activity adherence in T2D as key targets for future interventions.

One likely factor which may influence physical activity adherence is perceived exercise effort. The study investigators reported, based on a small study, that perceived exercise effort is worse in people with T2D than in healthy obese controls, as measured by the Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE), even during low intensity exercise. Thus, one strategy to increase physical activity in T2D is to first identify the mediators of RPE in the proposed study and then to address them in future studies. The preliminary data suggest that likely mediators of RPE are both objective and subjective in nature. A key objective mediator of RPE is serum lactate level during exercise, which is a physiological marker of effort, and is disproportionately elevated in people with T2D vs. healthy controls. A key subjective mediator of RPE is self-efficacy, which influences the perception of exercise effort, and is disproportionately worse in people with T2D vs. healthy controls. To develop optimal physical activity interventions for people with T2D, the study investigators must understand whether RPE differences vary across the spectrum of exercise intensities (Aim 1), and the investigators must also determine the mediators of RPE across exercise intensities (Aim 2). Mediators of RPE in low-to-moderate intensity exercise are particularly important, because walking is a preferred physical activity for people with T2D. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Type 2 Diabetes

• NCT number: NCT01701570
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Colorado, Denver
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2012
• Completion date: August 2018