Why Join a Walking Program?

Completed

• Conditions: Older Adults

• Registration Number: NCT01730703
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

The purpose of this interview study is to learn why adults would join a walking program. This study involves interviews with persons who are 65 years of age or older. The interview takes approximately 25 minutes. A total of 132 people will be enrolled. This study will examine the utility or value of various potential features of an incentive-based walking program. These data will enable us to monitor and improve upon enrollment of incentive-based walking programs.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-11-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-11-15
• Study First Posted: 2012-11-21
• Study Start: 2013-02
• Primary Completion: 2013-04
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2017-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-04-07
• Last Update Posted: 2017-04-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 132

Inclusion Criteria

• age 65 or older
• self rated health at least good on a scale of poor, fair, good, very good, excellent
• self reports no physical reason not to exercise or health condition that would interfere with being active
• self reports able to walk at least 2 blocks without assistance or stopping not participating in a daily walking exercise program

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Willingness to Participate	Participation in the study will include only one interview, lasting approximately 25 minutes. Willingness to participate will be assessed during this first and only interview with the participant.	The goal of this pilot project is to examine why adults would join an incentive-based walking program. Our focus is willingness to participate. Willingness to participate is measured on a 7 point ordinal scale.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self explicated conjoint task	Participation in the study will include only one interview, lasting approximately 25 minutes. The self explicated conjoint task will be assessed during this first and only interview with the participant.	This study will examine the utility or value of various potential features of an incentive-based walking program. These data will enable us to monitor and improve upon enrollment of incentive-based walking programs.; How important is this feature? How desirable is this feature?; Importance: 7 point ordered scale from "extremely" to "not at all" Desirability: 7 point from "very desirable" to "very undesirable"

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States