Clinical trial NCT03125590: Validation, Reliability and Pilot Test of the Personalized Exercise Questionnaire (PEQ)
Official title: Reliability and Validity Study of the Facilitators and Barriers Exercise Questionnaire
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal
Osteopenia
Keywords: Osteoporosis, osteopenia, test-retest, validity, PEQ, questionnaire, facilitators, barriers, exercise, physical activity
Lead sponsor: McMaster University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-04-24
Enrollment: 114
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Peoples with a diagnosis of primary osteoporosis or osteopenia.

Brief summary: The PEQ is the first tool to measure facilitators, barriers, and preferences to exercise in people with osteoporosis.

Detailed description: Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue. This disease can increase the risk of bone fragility fractures and is indirectly associated with premature death. These fractures are more common than cancer or heart disease in North American women 50 years or older, with an osteoporotic fracture occurring every 3 seconds worldwide, and are a major issue to patients and the healthcare system. Increased fracture rates, particularly in the hip and spine, may lead to hospitalization and subsequent immobility.

Some studies have shown fitness to be a better predictor of bone mineral density than age, yet adherence to exercise is poor. Studies suggest that 50% of those registered in an exercise program drop out within the first 6 months, lack of time being the number one barrier in many populations. To increase adherence to an exercise program, a systematic review has identified a number of facilitators and barriers to exercise in adults with osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Hitherto, no measurement tool has been created to measure these facilitators and barriers in people with osteoporosis. The investigators have developed and validated the PEQ (Personalized Exercise Questionnaire), a new tool that can measure the facilitators, barriers, and preferences to exercise. The next steps are to test the reliability, known-group validity, and pilot test this tool in the osteoporosis population.

Future physical activity or exercise interventions could benefit from using this tool to leveraging the facilitators and limiting the barriers to exercise to increase adherence to an exercise program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. The participant is able and willing to provide informed consent
2. The participant is male or female, 18+
3. The participant has received a diagnosis, from a physician, of primary osteopenia or osteoporosis (T \< - 1.0)
4. The participant can read and write English

Exclusion Criteria:

1. The participant has been diagnosed with secondary osteopenia or osteoporosis
2. The participant has a history of smoking, alcoholism, gastrointestinal disease, hypercalciuria and/or steroid use.
3. The participant is diagnosed with a reading disability or dyslexia
4. The participant has a cognitive impairment of some severity as to adversely affect the validity of the data

Primary outcomes:
measure: Reliability of the PEQ
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Known Group-Validity
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Preferences to exercise
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Barriers to exercise
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Exercise Goals
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hamitlon
country: Canada
facility: St. Joseph's Health Care Centre; Charlton Site
state: Ontario
Study officials:
References:
citation: Rodrigues IB, Adachi JD, Beattie KA, Lau A, MacDermid JC. Determining known-group validity and test-retest reliability in the PEQ (personalized exercise questionnaire). BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2019 Aug 14;20(1):373. doi: 10.1186/s12891-019-2761-3.