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Stand When You Can: 6-week Pilot Study to Reduce Sedentary Time in Assisted Living

NCT04458896 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2020-07-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Prolonged daily sedentary time is associated with increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases, impaired physical function, and mortality. Older adults are more sedentary than any other age group and those in assisted living residences accumulate even more sedentary time as they often have little need to engage in light-intensity or standing activities such as cleaning or meal preparation. This "low movement" environment can hasten functional decline. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop a multi-level intervention to reduce and interrupt sedentary time within assisted living residences and conduct a pilot study to determine if the intervention is feasible and if further testing is warranted.

Conditions

  • Sedentary Behavior
  • Aging

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Stand When You Can

Intervention strategies can be customized to different environments based on consultation with management. Some strategies will be mandatory: * Education session: group information session during the first week of the intervention (30min) to discuss sedentary time (ST), health risks, strategies to reduce ST, goal setting, \& the identification of barriers and motivators to reducing ST. Group discussion will be encouraged to increase self-motivation and self-efficacy. An information "workbook" will be given to each attendee for their personal use and goal setting. * Point of decision prompts (ie: signs that encourage standing; see attachments) will be placed in common areas of the facility, and/or given as pamphlets to residents. * An intervention package will be provided to the Activity Coordinator and Manager of the facility. This package will provide an introductory letter along with materials to promote reduced sedentary time in the facility

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Lethbridge

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer Copeland, PhD · University of Lethbridge

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-28
Primary Completion
2019-04-30
Completion
2019-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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