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Go For It: to Improve Levels of Daily Physical Activity and to Reduce the Sedentary Life Style of Adolescents With CP

NCT02978469 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2016-12-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Long hours of daily sitting and lack of Physical Activity (PA) are risk factors for morbidity and mortality.

People with movement disabilities, including adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) tend to lead a sedentary life styl and have have poor physical fitness. Adolescents with CP where found to be inactive most of the day thus, they are in greater risk of disease than the general population. In addition, over the years, people with disabilities experience physical and functional deterioration. Reducing sedentary behavior and increasing daily activity can reduce health risk factors among the adolescents with CP, reduce secondary impairments and preserve function.

Interventions that included exercise alone has not resulted in physical activity and participating in a structured training did not continue after cessation intervention.

The objectives of this study are to establish effective programs aiming to promote an active life style among adolescents and young adults with CP and to evaluate there outcomes.

Specific objectives- Stage 1- Identifying barriers and facilitators for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents and young adults with CP. As well as, identifying mediators, needs and preferences for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents and young adults with CP.

Stage 2- Based on stage 1- Establishing an intervention for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents.

Stage 3- translating and developing questioners for the study.

* Translating the ASK-Performance and the ASK-Capability questionnaires to Hebrew and validating the Hebrew translation.
* Developing a self-efficacy perception questioner for increasing physical activity and reducing and sedentary behavior.
* Translating to Hebrew, adjusting and validating an activity diary.

Stage 4- evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed intervention program on reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents and young adults with CP.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy (CP)

Interventions

OTHER

Life style changing: reducing sedentary behavior

The program includes 23 meetings held once per week (with holiday breaks). Each meeting lasts 90 minutes, consisting of exercise training. the group will meet for information providing and discussion. Participants are guided in the process of creating a focussed individualized activity plan. In the group setting they will experience a variety of activities enabling them to explore activities they prefer: each participant receive three personal consultation meetings. The group will experience sport and recreational activities with persons with physical impairments. Also activities in sport in community facilities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center

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Principal Investigators

  • Leonel Copeliovitch, MD · Human Motion Analysis Laboratory, Assaf Harofe Medical Center Zerifin Israel

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2017-11-30

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