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Effect of Including Fitness Testing in Preventive Health Checks on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Motivation

NCT02224248 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2201

Last updated 2016-11-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if including fitness testing in preventive health checks increase cardiorespiratory fitness and motivation to change physical activity behavior compared with preventive health checks without fitness testing.

Conditions

  • Cardiorespiratory Fitness
  • Physical Activity
  • Health Behavior
  • Motivation
  • Intention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health checks with fitness testing

Fitness testing as part of a preventive health check compose the intervention in this trial. Thus, the intervention group will receive preventive health checks with fitness testing.

BEHAVIORAL

Health checks without fitness testing

The active comparator will not receive fitness testing as part of the preventive health checks. With the exception of fitness testing, the preventive health checks in the active comparator group and the intervention group are identical.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Randers Municipality, Denmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • Central Denmark Region

    collaborator OTHER

  • TRYG Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Annelli Sandbæk, Professor · Institute of public health, section of general practice, Aarhus University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-06-30
Completion
2016-06-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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