Clinical trial NCT03539679: HEALTH AND EXERCISE IN THE DEFENSE FORCES
Official title: TERVEYS JA LIIKUNTA PUOLUSTUSVOIMISSA
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Condition, Minor Psychological Component
Keywords: Exercise, sickness absences, health, military fitness
Lead sponsor: Tampere University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Tampere University
name: University of Jyvaskyla
name: UKK Institute
First posted: 2018-05-29
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Intervention group and control group.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The most important goal is to create a cost-effective, stimulating model for improving the employee's quality of life, work ability, and job satisfaction in the military operating environment. This is achieved by finding out how to activate an individual with the phone-based gaming and web-based feedback system to improve his physical condition. This study also tries to find out the adequate amount of physical activity to maintain the physical health of workers.

Personnel work ability, to work safe in service and effective operation capability of emergency forces require a worker's state of total well-being, in which the health and the physical condition are important parts. The changes in these affects the individual's fitness to military. This study develops a model to encourage an individual to carry out physical activity by himself. This will lead to reduce the sick leaves and improve the health and fitness.

Physical activity reduces morbidity. Professional soldiers must maintain their physical condition and skills. The study explores the optimum amount of working-age physical activity. It helps to maintain the working ability and one's fitness to field operations. With the help of the developed model it is possible cost-effectively activate a large number of employees to move more and to live more healthily.

Detailed description: In this study it will be used motion sensors which are sending feedback to individuals mobile phone. Feedback is also given by email and in an interview after analyzing data from cloud service.

In the beginning of the study it will analyzed blood test, salivary test, body composition, height weight and basic motion. All volunteers are also answering a questionnaire.

There will be an intervention group and a control group. The intervention group will receive feedback during the all six months they are carrying the motion sensor.

After 6 and 12 months the basic analyzes will be repeated. Sick leaves and the changes in the muscular fitness test and changes in the 12-minutes running test will be analyzed.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Voluntaries armed forces workers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Health enough to participate the military fitness test.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Better physical condition.
timeFrame: 6 months.
measure: Less sick leaves.
timeFrame: From past 12 months up to next 12 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Positive changes in the TELI v 1.0 questionnaire.
timeFrame: 6 months.
measure: Better physical condition.
timeFrame: 6 months.
Other outcomes:
measure: Better physical condition.
timeFrame: 12 months.
measure: Better physical condition.
timeFrame: 12 months.
measure: Positive changes in the TELI v 1.0 questionnaire.
timeFrame: 12 months.
Locations:
city: Tampere
country: Finland
facility: Kai Parkkola
Study officials:
affiliation: PROF EMER, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE
name: KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: PROF, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
name: HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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