NCT04536727

Enhancing Well-Being Through Exercise During Old Age

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Determine the feasibility of adapting Fit \& Strong!, an evidence-based group physical activity and health education program, to include affect and mood-related content and of employing this intervention among older adults with a range of depressive symptoms.

Detailed description

The specific aims of this pilot are to use a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a wait list control design to: 1) Determine the feasibility of adapting Fit \& Strong! to include affect and mood-related content and of employing this intervention among older adults with a range of depressive symptoms. 2) Begin to determine whether Fit \& Strong! is efficacious as an approach for improving positive affect, reducing negative affect, decreasing symptoms of depression, and improving cognition among older adults. 3) Explore the relationship between negative/positive affect and symptoms of depression and maintenance of physical activity between baseline and 2 months, in order to determine whether improved positive affect and reduced negative affect and depression and improved cognition are associated with an increase in physical activity.

Conditions

• Depression
• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Fit & Strong!	The 8-week intervention will consist of the Fit \& Strong! program adapted to address the impact of exercise on enhancing positive affect and reducing negative affect and depressive symptoms. Exercise classes will meet three times per week for 90 minutes per session for eight weeks. Each class is divided into 60 minutes of strength training, flexibility, and cardiovascular exercise and 30 minutes of group education/discussion, which has been adapted to include affect-oriented content
BEHAVIORAL	Wait list	Participants randomized to the wait list group receive the 8-week Fit \& Strong! intervention after the intervention group has competed it and after the wait list group has provided their post-outcomes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-01
• Primary completion: 2020-02-28
• Completion: 2020-02-28
• First posted: 2020-09-03
• Last updated: 2023-09-06
• Results posted: 2023-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States