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Individualized Exercise Program Plus Behavioral Change Enhancement Strategies for Managing Fatigue in Frail Older People

NCT03394495 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 184

Last updated 2024-02-28

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Summary

This project aims to investigate the effects of an individualized exercise programme with and without BCE strategies for community-dwelling frail older people with general fatigue, so as to reduce their fatigue and improve their physical endurance, exercise self-efficacy, and habitual physical activity, while reducing their symptoms of frailty.

Twelve district community health centres will be randomized to one of the three study groups: the combined (COMB) group, receiving the 16-week combined intervention consisting of individualized exercise training and Behavioural Change Enhancement programmes plus two booster sessions at 2 and 6 months after the programme; the exercise (EXER) group, receiving exercise training and health talks only; or the control group, receiving health talks only. Participants from each centre will be placed in their centre's corresponding group.

It is hypothesized that the COMB group will achieve a significantly greater reduction in fatigue and a greater improvement in their physical endurance, exercise self-efficacy, and habitual physical activity, and a significantly greater reduction in their frailty symptoms, when compared with the EXER and control groups at 1 week and 6 and 12 months after completing the interventions.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

BCE Combination group

The combination intervention programme consists of a weekly exercise training sessions and 6 sessions of Behavioral Change Enhancement (BCE) programme.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yat-wa Justina Liu · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-26
Primary Completion
2020-04-30
Completion
2021-01-01

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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