Personalized Exercise Programme (PEP) I: Physician Referral Approach to Increasing Awareness and Sustainability of Physical Activity for Overweight Adults With Mobility Limitations.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 96
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Body mass index (BMI)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims to increase physical activity among overweight African-American women with mobility limitations.
Detailed Description
Regular, sustainable physical activity can have a dramatic effect on reducing obesity and other secondary conditions and increasing quality of life. People with mobility limitations have a higher level of physical inactivity resulting from numerous personal and environmental barriers to physical activity participation. This project will evaluate the feasibility of increasing physical activity among overweight individuals with mobility limitations through physician-referrals to a personalized exercise programme at the Chicago-based National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD).
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years or older
- •English speaking
- •Self-reported mobility limitation
- •BMI greater than or equal to 27
- •Receiving care at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Medical Center
- •Sedentary
Exclusion Criteria
- •did not receive physician approval to participate
Arms & Interventions
Arm 1: Physical activity awareness
The awareness group received a physician-recommendation to exercise an informational brochure, and pedometer.
Arm 2: Lower Support
The lower support group received arm 1 plus monthly newsletter, weekly personalized exercise support via telephone.
Intervention: Personalized exercise programme (PEP) (Behavioral)
Arm 3: Higher support
The higher support group received arm 1 plus arm 2 plus a face-to-face monthly exercise support group.
Intervention: Personalized exercise programme (PEP) (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Body mass index (BMI)
Time Frame: 24 months
Derived emperically
Physical activity
Time Frame: 24 months
Physical activity was assessed using the Physical Activity and Disability Scale (PADS), the Barriers to Physical Activity and Disbility Scale (B-PADS), (Rimmer et al 2000) and the Mobility Limitation score (Velozo et al 1999).
Blood Pressure
Time Frame: 24 months
Dervied emperically
Weight
Time Frame: 24 months
Derived emperically
Blood lipids
Time Frame: 24 months
Derived emperically
Secondary Outcomes
- Psychosocial Health(24 months)