Nurse Physical Activity Counseling in Primary Care
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Frail Elderly, Aged, Physical Fitness
In brief
Aging veterans with functional impairments followed in primary care clinics were randomized to counseling for a walking plus strength exercise home-based exercise program or to health education by a nurse. Exercise participants attended 3 intervention sessions totaling about 100 minutes of contact with the nurse and a physical therapy assistant over 10 months. They were also asked to record walking and strength exercise on monthly calendars and received motivational automated phone messages. Education control patients discussed health topics of their choice with the nurse. Materials were based on National Institute of Aging materials currently available on the internet. After 10 months, the exercise participants reported more time spent in walking and strength exercise and accelerometer data indicated a greater increase in time spent in moderate or higher intensity activity per day. Participants who engaged in strength exercises improved more on functional fitness tests and quality of life after 10 months. Analyses from the cognitive sub-study remain incomplete.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00105781
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 240
- Starts
- 2002-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2006-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-07
Who can join
Age: 60 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Referred by primary care providers in VA primary care clinics. Interested and willing to try to increase physical activity. Some self-reported or observed impairments in physical function. Excluded if there are health conditions that make home-based exercise not appropriate. Observed or self-reported physical function impairment Able to walk for health Living independently in community Able to return to VA MedicalCenter for research visits Enrolled in primary care Access to telephone
You may not qualify if…
- Any of these within 6 months: myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, TIA or stroke, leg fracture, seizure, uncontrolled arrhythmia, unstable angina Uncontrolled diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia FEV1 less than 1.5 Any condition that provider believes would make unsupervised exercise unsafe
Where it is running
- G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS — Jacksonport, Arkansas, United States
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