Increasing Physical Activity Among Overweight Women With Mobility Disabilities. (PEP)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized exercise programme (PEP)

Study type: Interventional

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

Identifiers

NCT00164515

R04CCR518810 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

CDC-NCBDDD-R04CCR523275

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to increase physical activity among overweight African-American women with mobility limitations.

Full description

Regular, sustainable physical activity can have a dramatic effect on reducing obesity and other secondary conditions and increasing quality of life. People with mobility limitations have a higher level of physical inactivity resulting from numerous personal and environmental barriers to physical activity participation. This project will evaluate the feasibility of increasing physical activity among overweight individuals with mobility limitations through physician-referrals to a personalized exercise programme at the Chicago-based National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD).

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• English speaking
• Self-reported mobility limitation
• BMI greater than or equal to 27
• Receiving care at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) Medical Center
• Sedentary

Exclusion criteria

• did not receive physician approval to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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96 participants in 3 patient groups

Arm 1: Physical activity awareness

No Intervention group

Description:

The awareness group received a physician-recommendation to exercise an informational brochure, and pedometer.

Arm 2: Lower Support

Experimental group

Description:

The lower support group received arm 1 plus monthly newsletter, weekly personalized exercise support via telephone.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized exercise programme (PEP)

Arm 3: Higher support

Experimental group

Description:

The higher support group received arm 1 plus arm 2 plus a face-to-face monthly exercise support group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized exercise programme (PEP)