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The Supporting Her In Navigating Exercise Program: Examining Peer Support to Promote Exercise Among Undergraduate Women

NCT06823336 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2025-02-12

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Summary

The purpose of this randomized controlled pilot trial is to test the effectiveness of a six-week tailored physical activity program with and without peer mentoring on the psychological constructs and exercise behaviour of inactive undergraduate women. The objectives are to:

* Quantify the degree to which a peer-mentorship intervention affects exercise motivation determined through three basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness).
* Examine general psychological distress and exercise engagement throughout the study.
* Qualitatively explore participants' experiences following the completion of the program using an open-ended survey to gain a better understanding of its impact.

Researchers will compare the parallel arm conditions to see how the inclusion of social support impacts exercise engagement.

Participants will be asked to engage in exercise three times a week at the campus gym; those in the intervention condition will have an assigned peer-mentor who will join them for one weekly session and virtually communicate with them between sessions.

Conditions

  • Social Support (Formal and Informal)

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention

Participants will be encouraged to engage in independent exercise twice a week for 30 minutes. They will be randomly assigned to a peer-mentor, with whom they will engage in on-on-one exercise once a week for 30 minutes. Between sessions, they will engage in virtual communication with each other for about 30 minutes each week. Each participant-mentor duo will continue this protocol for 6-weeks.

OTHER

Control

Participants will be encouraged to engage in exercise three times a week for thirty minutes, over a span of 6-weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • St. Joseph's Care Group

    collaborator OTHER

  • Lakehead University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erin S Pearson, PhD · Lakehead University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-28
Primary Completion
2025-06-30
Completion
2025-08-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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