NCT00097643

Problem Solving/Physical Interventions and Aging

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 273 (planned)
• Sponsor: National Institute on Aging (NIA) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the relative and combined efficacy of a physical activity and health promotion program to help sedentary adults over age 70 maintain an independent life style.

Detailed description

The study recruited 273 participants from a community-based HMO for whom computerized health service utilization and cost data were already available, as well as cognitive, functional, and health status measures. The participants were randomly placed into one of four treatment groups: exercise, health promotion, combination exercise and health promotion, and routine medical care. Assessments for physical performance, emotional well-being, and physical and emotional health status were conducted at screening, baseline, after 3 months (post-treatment), and at 6, 12, and 18-month follow-up by interviewers blind to treatment assignment.

Conditions

• Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	exercise
BEHAVIORAL	health promotion

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-09-01
• Primary completion: 2004-09-01
• Completion: 2004-09-01
• First posted: 2004-11-25
• Last updated: 2008-08-13