Clinical trial NCT00594360: Evaluation of Effect of Exercise on Prescription - a Psychological Perspective
Official title: Exercise on Prescription: Effects and Comparison of Psychological Parameters Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, and Health Physical Between Participants in a Danish Version of Exercise on Prescription.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE2
PHASE3
Conditions: Physical Inactivity
Motivation
Behavior Change
Keywords: Exercise Prescription
Self-efficacy
Decisional Balance
Readiness to Change
Physical Activity
Lead sponsor: University of Southern Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The County of Funen, Denmark
name: The County of Frederiksberg
name: National Board of Health, Denmark
First posted: 2008-01-15
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a primary healthcare intervention called 'Exercise on Prescription' aimed at increasing level of physical activity and psychological parameters in a population of sedentary patients with increased risk of developing lifestyle diseases. The effect is evaluated using patient-reported variables.

Detailed description: Exercise prescriptions are used for initiating a physical active lifestyle in sedentary populations.

A Danish project called 'Exercise on Prescription' (EoP) is implemented in primary healthcare. Patients eligible for EoP are non-institutionalised adults with medically controlled lifestyle diseases or risk factors of lifestyle diseases, who are motivated to change lifestyle, able to improve health status through a physical active lifestyle, and willing to pay a fee of €100 for the intervention.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect on: 1) Self-efficacy, 2) Readiness to change, 3) Decisional balance, 4) physical activity level, and 5) health related quality of life.

The EoP-group is compared to an intervention group receiving only motivational counselling.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All patients referred to the Exercise on Prescription scheme by their general practitioner
* Volunteer to participate in the trial

Exclusion Criteria:

* BMI over 35

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patient-reported Self-efficacy level at 4, 10 and 16 months. Patient-reported Decisional balance level at 4, 10 and 16 months. Patient-reported Readiness to change level at 4, 10 and 16 months.
timeFrame: 16 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient-reported physical activity level at 4, 10 and 16 months. . Patient-reported health related quality of life at 4, 10 and 16 months. Patient-reported compliance with national guidelines for physical activity at 4, 10 and 16 months.
timeFrame: 16 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Odense
country: Denmark
facility: Centre of Applied and Clinical Exercise Science, Institute og Sport Sciences and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denamrk
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre of Applied and Clinical Exercise Science, Institute of Sport Sciences and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
name: Lis Puggaard, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Bredahl TV, Puggaard L, Roessler KK. Exercise on Prescription. Effect of attendance on participants' psychological factors in a Danish version of Exercise on Prescription: a study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008 Jun 26;8:139. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-139.