The effects of an exercise program on total daily energy expenditure

Not Applicable

Completed

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

• Registration Number: ACTRN12610000248066
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of South Australia

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2010-03-24
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 96

Inclusion Criteria

Participants must be ‘insufficiently active’ according to the Active Australia criteria. Insufficiently active means that the person does not achieve 150 minutes of physical activity per week.

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be excluded from the study if they are not willing to (a) wear an accelerometer daily for seven days at each measurement period and (b) participate in either the moderate exercise intervention or extensive exercise intervention 40-day group PA program, or (c) act as controls.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
daily minutes of physical activity [measured by the Multimedia Activity Recall for Children and Adults (MARCA)][baseline, 3 weeks, 40 days, 3 and 6 months];daily accelerometer counts (measured by accelerometers)[baseline, 3 weeks, 40 days, 3 and 6 months];daily energy expenditure (measured by the MARCA and doubly-labeled water)[baseline, 3 weeks, 40 days, 3 and 6 months]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
il[Nil]