Motivating Individuals With Lupus to Exercise (MOVES)

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Treatments: Behavioral: MOVES

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05287581

HUM00207257

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical activity and exercise are helpful for managing symptoms like fatigue in people living with systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus; SLE). Despite research supporting physical activity participation, people with lupus are often inactive and report being afraid to exercise. To that end, this project is a pilot randomized controlled trial for examining the efficacy of a home-based behavioral intervention based on social cognitive theory and motivational interviewing for increasing physical activity and decreasing fatigue.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of Lupus
• be able to speak and read English
• being non-active defined as not engaging in regular activity (150 minutes or more of moderate physical activity per week)
• being impacted by fatigue defined as a score of 36 or higher on the fatigue severity scale

Exclusion criteria

• moderate or high risk for undertaking physical activity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental intervention is a 16-week progressive home-based exercise program in which participants are supported through seven coaching calls based on social cognitive theory and motivational interviewing principles. The individual sessions will provide tailored support for increasing physical activity behavior towards the recommended guidelines of at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity and two strength-training sessions per week. There are no drugs involved in the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MOVES

Waitlist Control

No Intervention group

Description:

24-week waitlist control condition