NCT03458793

Physical Activity Intervention for Loneliness

Physical Activity Intervention for Loneliness (PAIL) in Community-dwelling Older Adults: a Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study will be to examine the feasibility of a Physical Activity Intervention for Loneliness (PAIL) in community-dwelling older adults. The research is a feasibility study designed as a two-arm randomised controlled trial (RCT) with a wait-list control group (intervention will be offered at 12 weeks to control group).

Detailed description

After an initial screening for the eligibility based on current physical activity and levels of loneliness, up to 40 eligible participants will be randomised into the experimental or control group. Participants in the intervention group will be offered a 12-week outdoor group walking and health education workshops intervention. Each session will be performed once weekly for up to 90 minutes per session. Participants in the control group will be asked to maintain their current level of physical activity. Baseline and immediate post-intervention assessments will include anthropometry (height, weight, BMI), assessment of the resting blood pressure, physical activity for a 7-day period using accelerometer, questionnaires to assess loneliness, social support, social networks, social contacts, anxiety and depression, and expected outcomes of, and barriers to, exercise. Focus groups with participants will be conducted at 4 weeks mid-point and post-intervention to assess how the intervention might be improved; focus group transcripts will be thematically analysed using a phenomenological approach.

Conditions

• Loneliness
• Ageing
• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group walking and group educational workshops	The experimental group will take part in 12 week intervention consisting of group walking and group educational workshops. Group walking sessions will run once weekly for up to 45 minutes each in small groups (up to 8-9 people per group) and will be delivered by a trained walk leader once weekly for duration up to 45 minutes per session. Group educational workshops will be delivered in the form of a group presentation once weekly for up to 45 minutes by the research team (i.e. the PhD student) on a variety of topics focused on the healthy ageing, such as eye hygiene, mental health and well-being, preventing falls, social support, nutritional guides, physical activity recommendations for older adults and other topics

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-04
• Primary completion: 2018-12-28
• Completion: 2018-12-29
• First posted: 2018-03-08
• Last updated: 2019-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom