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Cognitive Control to Boost Physical Activity Adherence

NCT06338774 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2025-12-11

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Summary

This trial is designed to develop and test the efficacy of cognitive training strategies to improve self-regulatory capacities for middle-aged adults to adopt and sustain a physically active lifestyle. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Can cognitive training designed to improve cognitive control improve physical activity adherence?
* What are the psychological, physiological, cognitive, and sociodemographic factors that affect the impact of cognitive control on physical activity adherence?

Participants will

* Complete a 6-week home-based, computerized cognitive training program
* Complete a 6-week home-based, aerobic exercise training program with supervision of a health coach and trainer
* Complete a 6-week home-based, aerobic exercise training program prescribed by a health coach and trainer
* Visit the laboratory before and after cognitive training, and before and after physical training, to complete assessments of cognition and aerobic fitness

Conditions

  • Physical Inactivity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive training

Computerized cognitive training completed on any computer or tablet with internet

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Aerobic exercise intervention with structured exercise sessions prescribed by a study exercise specialist

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northeastern University

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Iowa

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-01
Primary Completion
2027-05-01
Completion
2027-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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