NCT02833935

Enhancing Quality of Life Through Exercise: A Tele-Rehabilitation Approach

Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating a Self-Determination Theory Tele-rehabilitation Physical Activity Intervention to Enhance Motivation, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life-related Outcomes Among Adults With SCI

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating a Self-Determination Theory (SDT) video-based tele-rehabilitation physical activity intervention aimed to enhance basic psychological needs, motivation, physical activity (PA), and quality of life- related outcomes of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI). It is anticipated that the individuals who receive the physical activity intervention (intervention group) will have moderate increases in their basic psychological needs, autonomous motivation, life satisfaction, and physical activity participation, and a moderate decrease in controlled motivation and depressive symptoms compared to the individuals who did not receive the intervention (control group).

Detailed description

Adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) report lower levels of quality of life (e.g., low life satisfaction; high depression) than the general population and have low rates of community participation. One health behavior that can improve these psychosocial outcomes is physical activity (PA). Unfortunately, PA rates are very low among adults with SCI. Novel interventions to increase PA are needed. One approach that has gained traction is video-based tele-rehabilitation, which has the benefit of reducing costs, increasing accessibility to services and delivering and adapting the intervention to the person's home environment. Experts have strongly recommended that PA interventions be based in psychological theory to enhance their effectiveness. The intervention will be grounded in a strong psychological/motivational theory called self-determination theory (SDT). According to SDT, humans strive for growth and well-being by aiming to satisfy their three basic psychological needs of autonomy (sense of volition), competence (sense of capability) and relatedness (sense of connectedness). The investigators intervention will therefore be designed to foster these psychological needs in order to increase intrinsic/autonomous motivation for PA, promote higher PA levels and improve quality of life and participation. To date, no study has either conducted a video-based tele-rehabilitation intervention to promote PA or has tested SDT among adults with SCI; thus providing the need for a pilot intervention. The purpose of this study is to pilot test an innovative, theory-informed, video-based tele-rehabilitation intervention aimed to enhance SDT-variables, PA and quality of life-related variables among adults with SCI. Effect sizes derived from this pilot intervention will be used to inform the sample size calculation of a subsequent larger randomized controlled trial. Given previous video-based PA tele-rehabilitation interventions do not exist, the hypotheses are derived from PA and general telephone-based counselling studies. Specifically, it is hypothesized that the video-based intervention will have moderate effects on SDT variables, PA, participation, life satisfaction and depression.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Activity Intervention	The PA intervention will be delivered in a virtual face-to-face format using the secure and confidential "Remote Education, Augmented Communication, Training and Supervision" online video-based software. Intervention participants will receive 8 PA sessions over 2 months (1/week), following collaborator specific telephone-based PA counselling protocol. The counsellor will individually tailor her approach to each participant by understanding the participant's past and current PA experiences, motives to be physically active, salient concerns and barriers regarding PA, and physical home environment. Throughout the intervention, the PA counsellor and participants will co-construct and collaboratively adapt the intervention with the participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-07-14
• Last updated: 2023-09-18
• Results posted: 2022-01-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada