Physical Activity, Sleep and Age

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Sleep; Aging; Movement Efficiency
• Interventions: Behavioral: One year fitness training

• Registration Number: NCT01609764
• Lead Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center

Brief Summary

Ageing is associated with a reduction of physical activity, movement efficiency, and quality of sleep. This leads to reduced health and well being in elderly subjects. Exercise training can increase movement efficiency and quality of sleep.

Objectives:

1. Laboratory validation test of body acceleration based indexes for movement efficiency and quality of sleep;

2. Cross-sectional analysis to assess relations between these indexes and age;

3. Intervention study to assess the effect of exercise training on daily life movement efficiency and quality of sleep in ageing subjects

45 healthy human volunteers, age 50-83 yr, BMI 20-30 kg/m2 are divided in control or intervention group. Subjects that will have practiced fitness activities in the previous year, as well as pregnant or lactating women, will be excluded.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2012-04-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-05-31
• Study First Posted: 2012-06-01
• Study Start: 2013-01
• Primary Completion: 2013-10
• Study Completion: 2014-10
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-03-15
• Last Update Posted: 2016-03-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 45

Inclusion Criteria

• Men and women
• Age between 50-85 years
• No fitness activity in the previous year, to amplify training effects on movement efficiency and quality of sleep.
• Body mass index between 20 and 30 kg/m2, obesity limits the training capacity of subjects.

Signed informed consent by the participants

Exclusion Criteria

• Age below 50 or above 85 years;
• body mass index below 20 kg/m2 or above 30 kg/m2;
• neurologic, cardiologic or invalidating orthopaedic disease;
• pregnancy or lactation.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Exercise	One year fitness training	Follows the fitness program as described in the intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in movement efficiency	At baseline and after 1 year	The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in an index to assess daily life movement efficiency. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects daily life movement efficiency.; The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of movement efficiency.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in quality sleep	At baseline and after 1 year	The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in one index to assess quality of sleep in daily life. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects quality of sleep.; The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of quality of sleep.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Maastricht University; 🇳🇱 Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands