NCT03026296

Healthy Life Centers - Municipal Health Care Service for Lifestyle Changes - a Multicenter Intervention Study

Healthy Life Centers - Municipal Health Care Service for Lifestyle Changes - a Multicenter Intervention Study on Changes Among Participants and Moderators for Changes Such as the Centers Capacity and Competence and the Participants Motivation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,022 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A Healthy Life Center (HLC, 'Frisklivssentrale') is a public community-based health service providing lifestyle support programs for physical activity, smoking cessation and diet, to inhabitants with increased risk for development of non-communicable diseases. HLCs intention is to reach physically inactive people who need guidance to get more physically active, and offer them a lifestyle program for three months or more. The main aim of this study is to study whether the HLCs, organized according to the Norwegian Directorate of Health's guidelines for municipal healthy life centers, affects the participants short term (3 months) and long term (15 months) physical activity level. Also changes in diet, tobacco use, health related quality of life, physical fitness, anthropometry, self-efficacy, motivation, drug use, use of health services and work participation will be assessed. Secondary aim is to study whether there are any moderators, such as HLCs capacity, expertise, and collaboration with other services, that have significance for participants' change. Also it will be studied whether the HLCs result in larger changes in some subgroups (e.g. socioeconomic) of participants than in others.

Conditions

• Musculoskeletal Disease
• Obesity
• Psychological Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Life Center	Depending on what behavior participants aim to change, they get individual counselling using elements from motivational interviewing, group-based exercise twice a week, diet courses and tobacco secession courses during three months

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2017-01-20
• Last updated: 2020-02-28

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Norway