Physical Activity With Social Support Adherence Intervention (PASAI)

Professor Jiska Cohen-Mansfield

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sedentary Status of Older Adults

Treatments: Behavioral: PA+Social Adherence Intervention(PASAI)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03457064

TelAvivUniv

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study compares two programs to increase physical activity among sedentary old persons. The first is a provision of a free physical activity program tailored to their abilities. The other combines the same free physical activity with an adherence intervention which focuses on social contact with others in the program and on enhancing self-efficacy.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Sedentary older adults.
• Residents in congregate housing.

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 70.
• Not completing an informed consent form.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

Physical Activity (PA)

No Intervention group

Description:

Physical activity (PA) involved a program of physical exercise alone.

PA+Social Adherence Intervention(PASAI)

Active Comparator group

Description:

PA+Social Adherence Intervention(PASAI) involved a program of physical exercise combined with a social adherence intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: PA+Social Adherence Intervention(PASAI)