Prevention by lay-assisted Outdoor-Walking in the Elderly at Risk (The POWER Study): a randomized controlled trial
- Conditions
- physical activityQuality of Life
- Registration Number
- DRKS00015188
- Lead Sponsor
- Abteilung für Allgemeinmedizin, Präventive und Rehabilitative Medizin Philipps-Universität Marburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 224
over 65 with reduced mobility and low social support
Individuals meeting one or more of the following criteria will be excluded from the study:
Not giving informed consent;
Mini-mental status test (MMST) score at baseline < 18;
Insufficient physical function (Short Physical Performance Battery Score at baseline =2 in nursing homes and =3 in community setting);
Excellent physical function (SPPB-Score =10);
Permanently bedridden;
Can only be mobilized in a wheelchair;
Regular physical activity at least equivalent to the intervention (>150 minutes/week);
Severe diseases with a life expectancy of less than 6 months;
Other foreseeable inability to take part in the intervention for 6 months;
Known alcohol or drug addiction or active psychosis during the last 12 months;
Also, otherwise eligible individuals will be excluded, if another person from the same household (e.g. marriage partner or partner / sibling if living together) is already participating in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Physical function measured by the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method SPPB-Score at the end of the follow up extension study;<br>Quality of life operationalized by the EQ-5D-5L;<br>Fear of falling measured by the Falls Efficacy Scale (FES-I);<br>Clock-drawing-test;<br>Physical activity level;<br>Number and duration of lay-assisted intervention activities participated in (according to activity diary)