ewCOACH: Comparison of Activity Coaching for Health

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Insufficient physical activity; Public Health - Health promotion/education; Public Health - Health service research; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000884909
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Newcastle

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-08-18
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 261

Inclusion Criteria

* Primary care patients
* Aged 18 years or older
* Insufficiently active, defined by 7 days of step counts with average step count of less than 7000 steps per day
* Fluent in English
* Able to give informed consent
* Telephone access
* Planning to live in greater Newcastle/Hunter region or Inner West Sydney areas for the next 12 months

Exclusion Criteria

* Too frail/disabled to benefit from either of the interventions (as measured by Timed Up and Go 3 metre test). Participants need to be able to complete the test within 19.9 seconds to be eligible. This is used as part of the initial screening, prior to randomisation.
* Deemed unsafe to exercise following exercise physiologist assessment (post-randomisation).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Average daily step counts as measured by pedometer for 7 consecutive days.[Three and 12 months after randomisation.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
self-reported physical activity levels as measured by the Active Australia survey[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];Self-reported waist circumference[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];Body mass index (calculated from self-reported height and weight)[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];Quality of life as measured by the AQOL-8D[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];Depressive symptoms as measured by the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D)[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];6 items measuring self-reported sedentary behaviour[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];3 items assessing the amount and frequency of dog walking[Three and 12 months after randomisation.];22 items assessing the social cognitive mediators of physical activity (intention, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, social support)[Three and 12 months after randomisation.]