The Seniors COvid-19 Pandemic and Exercise Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Activity; Depression; Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing); Social Identification; Loneliness; Quality of Life; Physical Health
• Interventions: Behavioral: Virtual Group Intervention; Behavioral: Personal Exercise Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04412343
• Lead Sponsor: University of British Columbia

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate different types of exercise programs (virtual group-based exercise program; personal exercise program; wait-list control) across 12-weeks on the physical and mental health of older adults during the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-05-23
• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-29
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-02
• Primary Completion: 2020-10-05
• Study Completion: 2020-10-05
• Status Verified: 2020-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-11-02
• Last Update Posted: 2020-11-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 241

Inclusion Criteria

• 65+ years old
• be able to speak and read English
• one participant in the study per household (Spouses, significant others, or family members can take part in the exercise programs with the study participant; however, they will not be able to provide data and won't be remunerated for participating)
• not experience any contraindication which might prevent that person from participating in moderate-intensity physical activity.
• participants must be able to access the internet at home via a personal smartphone, tablet (e.g., ipad), or computer (device used must have camera capabilities)
• low active individuals (i.e., less than 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week)
• currently living in Canada

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Exclusion Criteria

• age of less than 65 years
• unable to read and speak in English
• inability to participate in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (including a lack of ability to receive doctor's clearance for participating in physical activity)
• lack of internet access which does not allow them to access online materials
• device used to access the internet does not have a camera/video capabilities
• active individuals (e.g., participate in greater than 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity each week)
• living outside Canada
• not the first person from a household to enroll in the study

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Virtual group exercise	Virtual Group Intervention	Individuals in the (virtual) group-based exercise program, will have the opportunity to take part in (virtual) group exercise classes, delivered via videoconferencing, by experienced older adult exercise instructors. Personnel who analyze the data collected from the study are not aware of the treatment applied to any given group. Classes will be offered multiple days a week at 9am PST (12 noon EST), and will last approximately 50 minutes. Classes include a warm-up component, moderate intensity exercises as the core component of the class, and a cool-down. At the end of classes participants will have the opportunity to connect in small groups (videoconferencing breakout groups) to socially connect over a beverage (coffee, water) from their own homes. Participants in the group condition will also be sent, by mail, a program t-shirt to foster a sense of distinctiveness.
Personal exercise	Personal Exercise Intervention	Each of the older adult instructors described above will also contribute to delivering pre-recorded exercise classes (involving the same exercises, intensity, music, and so forth as those described above for the group condition). However, in this instance, instructors will deliver those classes to each participant by referring to themselves as each participant's personal trainer/coach, with language directed to the individual and not the group. That is, no sense of 'groupness' or 'shared social identities/connectivity' will be primed. Also, participants in this condition will not have the opportunity to interact with other older adults after classes have ended and will not receive the same program t-shirts designed to foster a sense of group distinctiveness.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing)	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	Well-being will be self reported using an 8-item measure from Diener et al., 2010

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social and Emotional Lonliness	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	11-item scale by De Jong Gierveld et al., 2006
Life Satisfaction	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	1-item question by Fleeson, 2004
Stress	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	1 Item Statistics Canada Stress Question from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2012)
Depression	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	10 Item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) via Andresen et al., 1994
Resilience	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	6 item Brief Resilience Scale by Smith et al., 2008
Social Identification	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	items adapted from the 4-item scale by Doosje et al., 1995
Weekly Somatic Symptoms (Physical Health)	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	question by Charles et al., 2006 adapted from Marmot et al., 1997
Physical Adherence	Looked at each day of the week for 12 weeks to see if a session was attended	Objective measure of attendance in online sessions (interventions conditions only)
Chronic Illness (Physical Health)	Baseline (Week 0)	question by Charles et al., 2006 adapted from Larsen et al., 1991
Leisure-time physical activity	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	modified version of the Leisure Score Index (LSI; Courneya, Jones, Rhodes, \& Blanchard, 2004) that has been applied to Godin's Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire (GLTEQ; Godin \& Shepard, 1985).
Alcohol Habits	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	3-item measure for alcohol consumption from CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Questionnaire, 1984-2019
Affective Attitudes	Baseline (Week 0), Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Follow-up (Week 12)	3 semantic differential items toward physical activity using scale by Azjen, 2006
Demographics	Baseline only (Week 0)	Items addressing sex/gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, chronic conditions, smoking behaviour, height, weight, education level, household income level, employment status, marital status, and living situation (i.e., alone vs. others).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of British Columbia; 🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada