The impact of physical activity promotion by health professionals on physical activity levels of adults & young people receiving outpatient care (PROMOTE-PA study)

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Public Health - Other public health; Physical inactivity; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation

• Registration Number: ACTRN12623000920695
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Sydney

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2023-08-28
• Last Update Posted: 16 October 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 720

Inclusion Criteria

Health professional participants
-A health professional providing outpatient or community- based clinical services within a participating clinical service in SWSLHD, SLHD, SCHN, SESLHD, WSLHD or within NSW private outpatient physiotherapy practice or specialist medical service.
-Health professionals who have the scope to include physical activity promotion in their practice, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, geriatricians, rehabilitation physicians, rheumatologists, endocrinologists, surgeons, sports physicians, exercise physiologists and nurses.
-Willingness to provide informed consent and willingness to participate and comply with the study requirements.

Patient participants
-Adults or school-aged children living in the community who are attending a participating clinical service and who are willing to receive additional support to be more physically active.
-No contra-indications to increase PA.
-Sufficient language capabilities to respond to written or verbal questionnaires in English, Arabic or Vietnamese.

Exclusion Criteria

Health professional participants
•Health professionals who are not working in relevant clinical areas outlined above.
Patient participants
•Participants who have a medical condition precluding physical activity/exercise
•Insufficient language capabilities to respond to written or verbal questionnaires in English, Arabic or Vietnamese
•Progressive neurological disease that severely affects function
•Other e.g., delirium, severe psychiatric disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified