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Improving Activity in Individuals With Cerebral Palsy

NCT06852664 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2025-09-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Individuals with cerebral palsy are known to have a reduced amount of physical activity; yet, there are no known intervention strategies for improving the number of steps they take each day. This study will use wearable physical activity monitors to assess if behavioral coaching is a viable strategy for combating the reduced physical activity seen in this patient population.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational Interviewing

The participants will meet with the research staff three times a week during the eight weeks of wearing the activity monitor via video or Webex call with a duration ideally not exceeding one hour. All staff involved in these coaching sessions have been MINT trained and certified and have mastered the skills of motivational interviewing. Their goal will be to discuss with the participant about how successful they have been or not been in increasing their daily step count and movement and discussing the barriers preventing them from achieving that goal. Open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries, balancing change and sustain talk, and eliciting change behavior will all be used accordingly during the sessions. Coaching is tied to the overall results in investigating if motivational interviewing and coaching are effective in increasing movement in populations with cerebral palsy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-01
Primary Completion
2029-03-01
Completion
2029-03-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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