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Engaging African American Older Adults With Arthritis in a Physical Activity Intervention

NCT05652413 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2023-07-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Physical activity like walking is one important way to reduce pain and improve wellbeing for older adults with knee and hip arthritis, but most older adults and particularly those who identify as African American struggle to walk regularly. Many African Americans with arthritis have worse outcomes (like worse pain, worse overall health) than other racial and ethnic groups for many reasons including racist policies and ideas that make getting good health care more difficult. It is therefore most important to identify ways to help older adults who identify as African American improve their arthritis pain and improve their daily steps. The current study is designed to learn about older African American's preferences for a brief behavioral intervention to increase daily steps and reduce pain, and to learn about the barriers (things that make walking harder) and facilitators (things that make walking easier) for walking that they experience. Interviews with both patients and healthcare providers will provide important information that will be used to adapt an existing behavioral intervention designed to help patients increase their daily steps and reduce their arthritis pain. The final adapted intervention will be tested in a small clinical trial with older adults who identify as African American to see if it can reduce pain and increase walking over time.

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis, Knee
  • Osteoarthritis, Hip

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Adapted-Engage-PA

Enhanced motivation strategies for increasing walking using personal values assessment and value-guided goal setting, adapted from Acceptance and Commitment therapy. Strategic activity pacing to increase stamina and reduce pain flares when walking, using the Activity Rest Cycle, from Pain Coping Skills Training. Culturally sensitive elements for older adults who identify as African American such as linking motivation to spirituality, family, community, and other personally-meaningful values.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga, PhD · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-09
Primary Completion
2023-07-20
Completion
2023-07-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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