Rapid Optimisation of Performance Enhancement and Skill (ROPES)

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Procedure: ROPES Training Programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06754007

2024-3861

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite innate knowledge of the benefits of regular physical activity, healthcare workers are just as physically inactive as the general population. Physical activity interventions delivered at the workplace seem perfect to improve the health of this large population.

The aim of the study is to deliver an efficacious, minimal time impost training program targeted at optimising health benefit while overcoming time-related barriers to initial uptake of regular exercise.

Full description

To evaluate the effectiveness of a 4-week, easily accessible, time-optimised exercise program (ROPES - Rapid Optimisation of Performance Enhancement and Skill) for healthcare workers.

60 staff recruited from Singapore General Hospital (SGH) will be randomly assigned into 2 groups, CONTROL or ROPES group. The ratio to intervention and control group is at 1:1. The staff will be assigned to each group respectively.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age group: 21 - 70 years old
• All participants must be free of musculoskeletal, surgical and/or neurological injury in the past 6 months.
• Participants not engaged actively in regular exercise i.e. exercises less than once a week and at a duration less than 30 mins per session.
• Healthy with stable management of any existing diabetes, cholesterol and/or hypertension.
• They should have no issues with the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q)

Exclusion criteria

• Participants under the age of 21 or over the age of 70
• Newly diagnosed diabetes/metabolic syndrome/high cholesterol or uncontrolled high BP >160 mmHg and under medical supervision.
• Subjects with cardiovascular conditions and on beta-blockers.
• Subjects who are pregnant or with recent (< 3 months) diagnosis of a medical condition, especially cardiac-related conditions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

30 participants will be randomised into the CONTROL group and will continue to perform their normal activities. They will only be required to keep a log of their exercise intensity for each week over the 4-week period and record them on an online diary. The exercise log/diary consists of type of exercise, e.g. resistance or aerobic and duration of exercise session.

ROPES

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is a 4-week training exercise program conducted by trained Physiotherapists.

Treatment:

Procedure: ROPES Training Programme