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WalkMore Walking Interventions for Overweight/Obese Postmenopausal Women

NCT01519583 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2022-09-15

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Summary

The WalkMore study will help find out how walking interventions can help overweight/obese postmenopausal women with increased risk of cardiovascular disease lower their blood pressure.

Conditions

  • Postmenopausal Disorder
  • Blood Pressure
  • Over Weight

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Basic Intervention

Participants will have the goal of obtaining 10,000 steps/day. In addition, participants will attend a meeting once a week with study staff, during which pedometers will be checked, and staff will provide a behavioral intervention to improve physical activity levels

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Pedometry

Intensity Enhanced Pedometry: Participants will have the goal of obtaining 10,000 steps/day at least 30 minutes in moderate intensity (i.e., at a cadence of at least 100 steps/min). In addition, participants will attend a meeting once a week with study staff, during which pedometers will be checked, and the staff will provide a behavioral intervention to improve physical activity levels.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Group

Maintain usual physical activity, and return for follow-up measures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD · Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
74 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT01519583 on ClinicalTrials.gov