Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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PREFER II aims at developing psychological targeted theory- and evidence-based intervention components, which support older people with multiple illnesses in performing more physical activity. Many studies provide evidence for the importance of physical activity as a central mediator of health. This means that determinants of physical activity such as personal resources constitute an ideal target for interventions. Within PREFER II, particularly positive views on ageing, attitudes, self-efficacy, planning and self-monitoring will be targeted in the interventions. These factors are important both for motivating older people with multiple illnesses to change their health behaviors and to translate such motivation into behavior.

Official Title
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Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity: Fortification of Effective Health Behaviour

Conditions
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Multimorbidity

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention
* Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention
* Behavioral: no intervention


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 64 years or older community-residing Exclusion Criteria: regularly exercising

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 64 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Intervention to enhance physical activity<br>Participants in this arm have high motivation to be regularly physically active. Face-to-face group intervention includes behavior change techniques to enhance physical activity. | Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention<br>* Intervention group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and physical activity.<br>|
| Active Comparator: Active control intervention<br>Face-to-face group intervention includes behavior change techniques to enhance volunteering and improve attitudes towards volunteering. | Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention<br>* Active control group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and volunteering.<br>|
| Other: Passive control intervention<br>Waiting-list control group, who receives all information (that the active groups got) via mail after completion of 8.5 months follow-up. | Behavioral: no intervention<br>* Passive control group that receives no intervention until the 8.5 months follow-up. Subsequently, they receive the information by mail the active groups received within the intervention.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in physical activity |  | Baseline, 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 8.5 months, 12 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in quality of Life |  | Baseline, 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 8.5 months, 12 months | 
| Change in self-reported perceived autonomy |  | Baseline, 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 8.5 months, 12 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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multimorbidity, older adults, physical activity, intervention, behavior change, autonomy