Clinical trial NCT00242658: Computerized Health Education to Promote Physical Activity
Official title: Computerized Physical Activity Promotion in Primary Care
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Hypertension
Keywords: Physical Activity
Wellness Programs
Health Promotion
Blood Pressure, High
Lead sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
name: Thomas Jefferson University
First posted: 2005-10-20
Enrollment: 394
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: This study will test the efficacy of providing primary care physicians and their patients with computer-tailored information, based on patients' responses to survey questions. The health education messages are designed to encourage patients to become physically active and to encourage physicians to counsel their patients about exercise.

Detailed description: The main objective of this study is to determine, via a 6-month randomized controlled study, the efficacy of providing tailored physical activity computer reports to patients and physicians. The primary outcome is minutes of physical activity measured by the 7-Day Physical Activity Recall interview at 6 months. The intervention group completed physical activity surveys at baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months. Based on their responses, participants received four feedback reports at each time point. The reports aimed to motivate participants to increase physical activity, personalized to participants' needs; they also included an activity prescription. The control group received identical procedures, except that they received general reports on preventive screening based on their responses to preventive screening questions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ability to speak and read English
* Current patient of a physician participating in this study (if selecting a new physician, may deliberately select one that is involved in the study, in order to participate)
* Ability to complete all written surveys
* Accessible for follow-up telephone surveys
* Ability to undergo exercise testing

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently participating in another research study
* Planning to move out of the Philadelphia area
* Unable to walk without pain
* Pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the year following study entry
* Excessive drinking
* Coronary heart disease
* Congestive heart failure
* Peripheral vascular disease
* Cerebrovascular disease
* Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
* Arrhythmia
* Recurrent seizures
* Dizziness
* Balance problems
* Psychoses

Primary outcomes:
measure: 7-Day Physical Activity Recall (7-Day PAR)
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Behavioral Processes of Change Between Baseline and 6 Months
timeFrame: Baseline and 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Jefferson Family Medicine Associates
state: Pennsylvania
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Jefferson Medical College, Department of Health Policy
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Jefferson Medical College, Department of Health Policy
name: Christopher N. Sciamanna, MD, MPH
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Carroll JK, Lewis BA, Marcus BH, Lehman EB, Shaffer ML, Sciamanna CN. Computerized tailored physical activity reports. A randomized controlled trial. Am J Prev Med. 2010 Aug;39(2):148-56. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.04.005.