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Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity

NCT01577134 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 310

Last updated 2015-03-31

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Summary

PREFER II aims at developing psychological targeted theory- and evidence-based intervention components, which support older people with multiple illnesses in performing more physical activity. Many studies provide evidence for the importance of physical activity as a central mediator of health. This means that determinants of physical activity such as personal resources constitute an ideal target for interventions.

Within PREFER II, particularly positive views on ageing, attitudes, self-efficacy, planning and self-monitoring will be targeted in the interventions. These factors are important both for motivating older people with multiple illnesses to change their health behaviors and to translate such motivation into behavior.

Conditions

  • Multimorbidity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social-cognitive resource intervention

Intervention group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and physical activity.

BEHAVIORAL

Social-cognitive resource intervention

Active control group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and volunteering.

BEHAVIORAL

no intervention

Passive control group that receives no intervention until the 8.5 months follow-up. Subsequently, they receive the information by mail the active groups received within the intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    collaborator OTHER

  • German Centre of Gerontology

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Clemens Tesch-Römer, Prof. Dr. · German Centre of Gerontology

  • Ralf Schwarzer, Prof. Dr. · Freie Universität Berlin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-08-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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