Healthy Life Centers - Municipal Health Care Service for Lifestyle Changes - a Multicenter Intervention Study

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Disorder; Obesity; Musculoskeletal Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Life Center

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03026296

2016/546-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

A Healthy Life Center (HLC, 'Frisklivssentrale') is a public community-based health service providing lifestyle support programs for physical activity, smoking cessation and diet, to inhabitants with increased risk for development of non-communicable diseases. HLCs intention is to reach physically inactive people who need guidance to get more physically active, and offer them a lifestyle program for three months or more.

The main aim of this study is to study whether the HLCs, organized according to the Norwegian Directorate of Health's guidelines for municipal healthy life centers, affects the participants short term (3 months) and long term (15 months) physical activity level. Also changes in diet, tobacco use, health related quality of life, physical fitness, anthropometry, self-efficacy, motivation, drug use, use of health services and work participation will be assessed. Secondary aim is to study whether there are any moderators, such as HLCs capacity, expertise, and collaboration with other services, that have significance for participants' change. Also it will be studied whether the HLCs result in larger changes in some subgroups (e.g. socioeconomic) of participants than in others.

Enrollment: 1,022 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• about to start structural support for lifestyle change (regarding physical activity, diet and/or tobacco cessation
• referred to a Healthy Life Center (HLC) from either primary physician, from other health care services or social services, or participants seeking contact themselves without a specific referral.

Exclusion criteria

• having participated in an HLC the previous 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,022 participants in 1 patient group

Participators in HLCs

Experimental group

Description:

Adults with high risk of non-communicable diseases (musculoskeletal disease, obesity, physical distress) about to start a 3 months structural support for lifestyle change in a Healthy Life Center (HLC) in Norway

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Life Center