Using a Schedule Intervention to Increase Sustainable Walking Activity in Midlife
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 149
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Physical activity
研究概览
简要总结
While people commonly understand that regular physical exercise conveys many health benefits, only 20% of U.S. adults take regular exercise and they have difficulty maintaining new healthy behaviors. The goal of this study is to use a planning intervention to help establish and maintain a daily step regimen in working midlife adults. The investigators will ask participants to plan when, where, and how to act on a daily walking goal in conjunction with a scheduling intervention to increase the chances that they will maintain this new regimen. The effectiveness of three different scheduling interventions will be compared.
详细描述
While people commonly understand that regular physical exercise conveys many health benefits, only 20% of U.S. adults take regular exercise and they have difficulty maintaining new healthy behaviors. The goal of this study is to use a planning intervention to help establish and maintain a daily step regimen in working midlife adults. The investigators will ask participants to plan when, where, and how to act on a daily walking goal in conjunction with a scheduling intervention to increase the chances that they will maintain this new regimen. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: consistent schedule, inconsistent schedule, no schedule. All participants will be provided with an accelerometer to measure their daily activity and as a behavioral support for our intervention and they will be given a step goal. The goal given to each individual will be to increase immediately their daily steps to a level based on recommended guidelines (e.g., Hill, Wyatt, Reed, and Peters, 2003). The investigators will test which version of the scheduling intervention is most successful for increasing and maintaining step counts. It is predicted that participants in the consistent schedule condition will increase their step count more than those participants in the no schedule control condition, and that they will maintain this activity for a longer period after the intervention period is complete than those participants in the inconsistent schedule condition.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Participants are not aware of whether they are in an experimental or control condition.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •currently working 3 or more days (or 24 hours or more) per week;
- •physically minimally active (as determined using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)
排除标准
- •a recent (within the past 6 months) cardiovascular event, or fall.
- •anyone who already exercises regularly, 3 times a week or more for at least 30 minutes, will be excluded
研究组 & 干预措施
No schedule control
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will also monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions.
干预措施: Accelerometer (Device)
No schedule control
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will also monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions.
干预措施: Step goal (Behavioral)
Consistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in consistent contexts, i.e., that are very similar from day to day.
干预措施: Accelerometer (Device)
Consistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in consistent contexts, i.e., that are very similar from day to day.
干预措施: Step goal (Behavioral)
Consistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in consistent contexts, i.e., that are very similar from day to day.
干预措施: Consistent contexts (Behavioral)
Inconsistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in inconsistent contexts, i.e., that vary from day to day.
干预措施: Accelerometer (Device)
Inconsistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in inconsistent contexts, i.e., that vary from day to day.
干预措施: Step goal (Behavioral)
Inconsistent schedule condition
This group will receive an accelerometer and daily step goal. They will monitor their steps over the 9 week duration of the study. They will have the same level of contact as the other two conditions. In addition they will plan when, where, and how they will take steps in inconsistent contexts, i.e., that vary from day to day.
干预措施: Inconsistent contexts (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Physical activity
时间窗: Daily for 9 weeks
Number of steps taken each day as measured on accelerometer
次要结局
- Measures of well being(Before and after intervention (5 weeks apart), and at followup (4 weeks later))
- Physical activity self-efficacy and ease(Weekly for 4 weeks)
研究者
Jane Ebert
Associate Professor of Marketing
Brandeis University