Clinical trial NCT02947230: Evaluating the Impact of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal on Physical Mobility Outcomes
Official title: Evaluating the Impact of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal on Knowledge, Behavioural Intentions and Health Behaviours Related to Physical Mobility
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mobility Limitation
Keywords: Mobility
Aging
Knowledge Translation
Physical Activity
Lead sponsor: McMaster University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-10-27
Enrollment: 535
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal (the Portal) was launched in 2014 to increase public access to trustworthy health information. The Portal helps readers to access evidence-based resources; identify trustworthy messages; and understand scientific findings. Now the investigators want to know whether using the Portal changes what people know and do to stay healthy and mobile.

This project will help us to:

1. Understand how middle aged and older adults (age 40+) use the Portal to obtain information about maintaining and improving mobility
2. Evaluate whether use of the Portal results in a change in knowledge about maintaining and improving mobility, or change in lifestyle behaviours that may help maintain or improve mobility with age.

Detailed description: Physically active lifestyles are important for health aging, but most Canadians do not meet published physical activity guidelines. This may be in part due to lack of access to evidence-based information on mobility and aging, and knowledge of strategies to maintain or improve mobility with age. The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal (the Portal) was launched in 2014 to increase public access to trustworthy health information. Now the investigators want to know if easy-to-understand evidence-based messages change what people know and do to stay healthy and mobile.

Sequential, explanatory mixed-methods design consisting of a two-armed randomized controlled trial and a qualitative process study to explore quantitative findings in depth.

Consent forms and a baseline survey will be sent to all interested participants. Following baseline data collection, participants will be stratified by previous Portal use, and randomized to the Knowledge Translation (KT) intervention or control group. During the 12-week KT intervention, intervention group participants will have access to the Portal and will receive mobility- focused weekly email alerts including blog posts and evidence summaries relevant to mobility and be invited to follow a Twitter and Facebook feed; a unique hashtag will be created to identify and collate relevant mobility information. Control group participants will be able to access the Portal in a 'self-serve' fashion, but will not receive targeted KT strategies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Website analytics
timeFrame: 12 weeks
measure: Email analytics
timeFrame: 12 weeks
measure: Google analytics
timeFrame: 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge Questionnaire
timeFrame: 12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
measure: Beliefs Questionnaire
timeFrame: 12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
measure: Intentions Questionnaire
timeFrame: 12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
measure: Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity
timeFrame: 12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
measure: Manty Preclinical Mobility Disability Scale
timeFrame: 12 weeks, 3 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
measure: Participant satisfaction
timeFrame: 12 weeks
Locations:
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: McMaster University
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: McMaster University
name: Maureen Dobbins, RN, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Neil-Sztramko S, Smith-Turchyn J, Richardson J, Dobbins M. Impact of a Knowledge Translation Intervention on Physical Activity and Mobility in Older Adults (the Move4Age Study): Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Feb 11;22(2):e15125. doi: 10.2196/15125.
citation: Neil-Sztramko SE, Smith-Turchyn J, Richardson J, Dobbins M. A Mobility-Focused Knowledge Translation Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Physical Activity: Process Evaluation of the Move4Age Study. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Jun 20;21(6):e13965. doi: 10.2196/13965.