NCT04944199

Asthma Control: Increased Physical Activity in Young Adults

Impact of Increased Physical Activity in Young Adult Asthmatic Patients on Patient Perception of Pulmonary Health and Exercise

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Geisinger Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Investigators want to study to see if patients who participate in a physical activity intervention involving increasing daily step counts will have better mini asthma quality of life questionnaire (Mini AQLQ) scores at the end of the study period compared to patients that are in the control group and do not increase daily step counts. Participants will be randomized into the two groups.

Detailed description

The Control group (usual care group) of 75 patients will not participate in the intervention but will take an asthma control survey at baseline (point of enrollment into the study) and about 4-6 weeks after. The Intervention group of 75 patients who will participate in the intervention of step counts and take an asthma control survey at baseline (point of enrollment into the study) and about 4-6 weeks after.

Conditions

• Asthma in Young Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical Activity	Intervention group participants will be enrolled in a standardized step-based program to gradually increase their physical activity. Daily steps will be measured via a pedometer application on a smartphone or wearable device, with a gradual increase in the goal on a weekly basis, with a target intervention of around 4-6 weeks in total. The first week's step count will be used to calculate a baseline step count for the week. At the start of each week, the participants will be asked to increase their daily step counts by 1,000.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-01
• Primary completion: 2021-07-31
• Completion: 2022-04-30
• First posted: 2021-06-29
• Last updated: 2022-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States