NCT01577134

Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity

Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multimorbidity: Fortification of Effective Health Behaviour

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 310 (actual)
• Sponsor: German Centre of Gerontology · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Multimorbidity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social-cognitive resource intervention	Intervention group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and physical activity.
BEHAVIORAL	Social-cognitive resource intervention	Active control group that receives a behavior change technique intervention to increase volitional strategies and volunteering.
BEHAVIORAL	no intervention	Passive control group that receives no intervention until the 8.5 months follow-up. Subsequently, they receive the information by mail the active groups received within the intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2012-04-13
• Last updated: 2015-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany