The PreventIT Trial in Young Older Adults, Comparing Two Lifestyle-integrated Exercise Interventions

Summary

The feasibility randomised controlled trial is part of the EU funded project "PreventIT" (2016-2018) responding to the Horizon 2020, Personalised health and care (PHC), call PHC-21: Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: Early risk detection and intervention. The PreventIT project focuses on a new behaviour change activity approach for young older adults (61-70 years of age) with an overall aim of early prevention of functional decline and to empower people to take care of their own health.

Conditions

• Young Older Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

aLIFE

The aLiFE programme is taught by an instructor during six home visits and 3 phone calls during the 6-month intervention period. The programme will be personalised by use of an initial balance and strength assessment (aLiFE assessment tool). The participants assigns activities to his or her daily activities, and during subsequent home visits, the number of activities and task demands are upgraded. Participants will be taught how to select opportunities themselves to embed activities into their individual daily routine, and how to progress over time.

BEHAVIORAL

eLIFE

The eLIFE includes a personalised ICT-administered training schedule using the activities developed in aLiFE, delivered in the form of video clips, pictures and text/verbal instructions on a smartphone and smartwatch application. Personalisation of activity content will be decided based on a phenotype tool and initial difficulty level is decided through the aLiFE assessment tool. In addition, a virtual instructor teaches the participants how to carry out the eLiFE programme. The user receives motivational messages and feedback, and there will be a possibility for social interaction between the participants. The instructors teach the eLiFE participants the programme during 4 home visits and 3 phone calls during the 6 month intervention period.

BEHAVIORAL

control

The control group follows the World Health Organization's recommendations of physical activity. The control participants will receive one home visit and be given a written letter with the activity recommendations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• VU University of Amsterdam

  collaborator OTHER

• Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für Medizinische Forschung mbH (RBMF)

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Bologna

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Manchester

  collaborator OTHER

• Local Centre Health Unit Tuscany

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  collaborator OTHER

• Doxee S.p.A.

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Health Leads BV

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jorunn Helbostad, phd prof · Norwegian Universitiy of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

61 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-02-28

Primary Completion

2018-08-31

Completion

2018-08-31

Countries

• Germany
• Netherlands
• Norway

Study Locations