Feasibility of an Exercise Intervention (MESH)

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Other: HOME-EX

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01984060

1K23AG043319-01A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall purpose of this research is to evaluate the effect of a home-based exercise program on physical function and to improve the health and quality of life for the HIV-infected older adult community.

Full description

Subjects are being asked to participate in this study if they are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and they are 45 years of age or older.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV positive, both genders, all races, English speaking individuals, age 45 years or older, on HAART before enrollment. .

Exclusion criteria

• Subject will be excluded if he/she has history or currently has severe cardiopulmonary illness, severe orthopedic or neuromuscular impairments, significant cognitive or sensory impairments, history of active malignancy, untreated depression, manic or psychotic disorder, and normal PPT score.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

HOME-EX

Other group

Description:

Motivational Counseling: Six patient-centered motivational counseling sessions based on the self-determination theory (SDT) of behavior change will be conducted with the patients in the HOME-EX group over 12 weeks. Exercise Intervention: an individually tailored home-based exercise program performed 5-7 days a week that consists of walking prescription, and individualized strength training exercise designed to provide moderately intense progressive resistance exercise. Subjects will be given a set of 3 color-coded therapeutic resistance bands representing varying levels of resistance and they will start with a number of sets which is customized for each individual and they will be encouraged to progressively increase from their individual baseline sets.

Treatment:

Other: HOME-EX

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects are instructed to maintain their usual activities during the study period. This group did not receive any PA counseling or recommendations.