Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity (PREFER)

German Centre of Gerontology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multimorbidity

Treatments: Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention; Behavioral: no intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01577134

01ET1001B

Details and patient eligibility

About

PREFER II aims at developing psychological targeted theory- and evidence-based intervention components, which support older people with multiple illnesses in performing more physical activity. Many studies provide evidence for the importance of physical activity as a central mediator of health. This means that determinants of physical activity such as personal resources constitute an ideal target for interventions.

Within PREFER II, particularly positive views on ageing, attitudes, self-efficacy, planning and self-monitoring will be targeted in the interventions. These factors are important both for motivating older people with multiple illnesses to change their health behaviors and to translate such motivation into behavior.

Enrollment: 310 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 64+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 64 years or older
• community-residing

Exclusion criteria

• regularly exercising

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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310 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention to enhance physical activity

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm have high motivation to be regularly physically active. Face-to-face group intervention includes behavior change techniques to enhance physical activity.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention

Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention

Active control intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Face-to-face group intervention includes behavior change techniques to enhance volunteering and improve attitudes towards volunteering.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention

Behavioral: Social-cognitive resource intervention

Passive control intervention

Other group

Description:

Waiting-list control group, who receives all information (that the active groups got) via mail after completion of 8.5 months follow-up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: no intervention