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Home Exercise to Enhance Mobility for Older Diabetics

NCT01308008 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2018-11-08

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Summary

The goal of the proposed research is to test whether a long-term exercise program in sedentary Veterans with diabetes will produce sustained improvement in mobility performance and physical activity. In this proposed research, 240 sedentary older adult diabetics (aged 60 and over) will be randomly allocated into a customized, primarily home-based, functionally-oriented exercise program with nurse support intervention (I) group versus a flexibility and toning, health education control (C) group, and test outcomes in functional mobility and physical activity at 4 weeks, 6 months and one year. This research can lead to an exercise/PA enhancement program that can coordinate with VA outreach programs, targeting older Veterans who are not in the immediate vicinity of a major VA site. Ultimately, this should create a model to which physicians and other providers could refer comorbid diabetes patients.

Conditions

  • Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

home exercise/physical activity (PA) enhancement program with behavioral support

Initial on-site personal trainer-based functional aerobic program followed by home intervention consisting of functional exercise training and enhanced physical activity with nurse telephonic behavioral support

BEHAVIORAL

flex and toning health education program

Initial flex and toning program continued on follow-up along with health education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Neil Alexander, MD · VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2017-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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