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HEALTH AND EXERCISE IN THE DEFENSE FORCES

NCT03539679 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2019-09-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The most important goal is to create a cost-effective, stimulating model for improving the employee's quality of life, work ability, and job satisfaction in the military operating environment. This is achieved by finding out how to activate an individual with the phone-based gaming and web-based feedback system to improve his physical condition. This study also tries to find out the adequate amount of physical activity to maintain the physical health of workers.

Personnel work ability, to work safe in service and effective operation capability of emergency forces require a worker's state of total well-being, in which the health and the physical condition are important parts. The changes in these affects the individual's fitness to military. This study develops a model to encourage an individual to carry out physical activity by himself. This will lead to reduce the sick leaves and improve the health and fitness.

Physical activity reduces morbidity. Professional soldiers must maintain their physical condition and skills. The study explores the optimum amount of working-age physical activity. It helps to maintain the working ability and one's fitness to field operations. With the help of the developed model it is possible cost-effectively activate a large number of employees to move more and to live more healthily.

Conditions

  • Physical Condition, Minor Psychological Component

Interventions

OTHER

Encouraging physical activity.

Encouraging physical activity with motion sensor's feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tampere University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Jyvaskyla

    collaborator OTHER

  • UKK Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tampere University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER · PROF EMER, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE

  • HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF · PROF, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-16
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2020-07-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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