NCT05038423

The 5R Shared Leadership Program in Older Adult Walking Groups

The 5R Shared Leadership Program in Older Adult Walking Groups: A Clustered Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 503 (actual)
• Sponsor: KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To test the efficacy of the 5R Shared Leadership program in older adults on participants' identification with their walking group, group cohesion, walking activity, and well-being, compared to a regular group walking program, the investigators conducted a cluster randomised trial.

Detailed description

All walking groups participated in a 12-week structured group walking program. Half of these walking groups were randomly assigned to the intervention condition and received additionally the 5R Shared Leadership Program

Conditions

• Leadership
• Identification
• Empowerment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	5R Shared Leadership Program	The manualised 5RS program aims to develop the leadership qualities of peer leaders by teaching them how to create, embody, advance, and embed a collective sense of 'us' in their teams. More specifically, 5RS consists of two key components that involve (1) implementing a structure of shared leadership, and (2) strengthening the identity leadership skills of the appointed peer leaders (Fransen et al., 2020). Fransen, K., Haslam, S. A., Steffens, N. K., Mallett, C. J., Peters, K., Mertens, N., \& Boen, F. (2020). All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 51, 101762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101762 Haslam, S. A., Steffens, N. K., Peters, K., Boyce, R. A., Mallett, C. J., \& Fransen, K. (2017). A social identity approach to leadership development: The 5R program. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 16(3), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000176
BEHAVIORAL	12-week structured walking program	Participants engaged in an evidence-based 12-week structured walking program, which aimed to enhance participants' physical activity and aerobic fitness levels based on personalised walking schedules and weekly group walks organised by the community-based meeting points.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-31
• Completion: 2020-08-31
• First posted: 2021-09-09
• Last updated: 2021-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium