Help Arthritis With Exercise in West Virginia (HARE)

Jennifer Hootman

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Arthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: 12-weeks EnhanceFitness; Behavioral: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00526201

AAMC-0944

CDC-NCCDPHP-AAMC-0944

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to determine if an evidence-based, community-delivered physical activity program, EnhanceFitness, yields benefits for participants with arthritis. The 3-year project will: 1) conduct a meta-analysis of community-based exercise programs for adults, 2) implement and evaluate the EnhanceFitness program in West Virginia using a randomized, controlled (wait list) design, and 3) disseminate the results to community and public health partners. It is anticipated that participation in the EnhanceFitness program will result in reduced pain, improved physical function and physical activity levels for adults with arthritis.

Enrollment: 323 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 and older
• Any type of self-reported, doctor-diagnosed arthritis

Exclusion criteria

• Any co-existing conditions where exercise is a contraindicated
• Impaired cognitive status
• Non-ambulatory

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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323 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be randomized to exercise (12 week EnhanceFitness class) or a wait-list control group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 12-weeks EnhanceFitness

Control

Other group

Description:

Wait-list control group will receive intervention after 12-weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control