Effectiveness of community-wide promotion of physical activity in middle-aged and elderly people: a 5-year extended study of a cluster RCT
- Conditions
- Physical inactivity and musculoskeletal pain
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000012464
- Lead Sponsor
- Physical Education and Medicine Research Center UNNA
- Brief Summary
Compared with control communities, adults achieving recommended levels of PA increased in intervention communities [adjusted change difference=4.6 percentage points (95% confidence interval:0.4, 8.8)]. The intervention was effective for promoting all types of recommended PAs, i.e. aerobic (walking, 6.4%), flexibility (6.1%) and muscle strengthening activities (5.7%). However, a bundled approach, which attempted to promote all forms of PAs above simultaneously, was not effective (1.3 to 3.4%, P>0.138). Linear dose response relationships between the CWI awareness and changes in PA were observed (P<0.02). Pain intensity decreased in shoulder (intervention and control) and lower back (intervention only) but there was little change difference in all musculoskeletal pain outcomes between the groups. (Kamada M et al., Int J Epidemiol, dyx248, Epub on 2017)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3000
Not provided
Those in assisted living facilities and those who require nursing care
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in the engagement in regular aerobic, flexibility, and/or muscle-strengthening activities from baseline to 5-year follow-up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) pain scores and chronic pains of low back and knee from baseline to 5-year follow-up, certification of needed long-term care, and mortality