An interventional study of Mindful Movement and 10 Keys to Health & Wellbeing in Physical Inactivity, sponsored by University of Minnesota. Completed at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 50 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-11-01.
Sponsored by University of Minnesota · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Physical inactivity has reached pandemic proportions and is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Of particular concern is that most middle to older age adults fall far short of recommendations for health enhancing physical activities. This research takes a novel approach to tackling this problem by combining mindfulness with behavioral strategies in a unique 'Mindful Movement' program offered through YMCA community facilities.
Physical inactivity in the United States has become a critical public health concern for all age groups. With a large segment of the population rapidly aging, there is growing interest in ensuring mid to older age adults (50+) stay active and reduce sedentariness, to decrease their morbidity and mortality risk. While older adults are advised to engage in at least 150 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA), most do not. Specific theory based behavioral strategies have been shown to positively affect health and activity behaviors. There is also emerging evidence that mindfulness based interventions (MBI) may facilitate PA through increased mind-body awareness and self-regulation. However, research for MBIs and physical activity is currently limited, both in quantity and methodological rigor.
The broad long-term objective is to optimize physical and sedentary activity levels in middle-older age adults through an integrated mindfulness and behavioral approach scalable for broad dissemination. The University of Minnesota (UMN) will work with the YMCA Greater Twin Cities, a community based organization committed to providing accessible resources to "build healthy spirit, mind and body for all" and making healthy aging a priority. To decrease time between discovery and translation, a two-phase hybrid effectiveness-implementation design will be used.
Phase I will address the following: 1) project organization, barrier/facilitator assessment, protocol development, and training; and 2) evaluation of feasibility of project protocols at multiple levels in a randomized pilot study (n=30) of Mindful Movement versus a modified 10 Keys to Health \& Wellbeing educational control using transition milestones.
Phase II will address: 1) investigation of the relative effectiveness of Mindful Movement versus control in a full-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT, n=182) using accelerometer based PA at 9 weeks (primary outcome) and at 26 and 52 weeks (secondary outcomes) as well as other secondary measures include sedentary activity, quality of life, exercise self-efficacy and expectations, mindfulness, wellbeing, bodily pain, and adverse events; and 2) RCT interpretation by providing contextual data from participants, staff, and organizational leadership. These will include: enrollment, adherence, follow up, and fidelity rates; and perceptions of barriers/facilitators, relevance, practicality, affordability and acceptability. This information will be used to create a toolkit for implementation at other YMCA sites.
This project is innovative in that it will be among the first to assess MBIs for enhancing older adults' physical activity in community based settings using a design intended to facilitate and accelerate research translation. Through the UMN and YMCA partnership, there is great potential to develop a sustainable and replicable physical activity intervention with meaningful impact and nationwide reach.
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Exclusion Criteria:
8, 90-minute, in-person, group sessions over 8 weeks
Other: Mindful Movement
8, 90-minute, in-person, group sessions over 8 weeks
Other: 10 Keys to Health & Wellbeing
The program focuses on enhancing individuals' mindfulness capabilities and skills, specifically attention regulation, body awareness, emotional regulation, and shifts in self-perception, by providing opportunities for education, practice, and social support in mindfulness practices and physical activity.
This community-based educational program provides participants useful content focused on general health related topics including common chronic conditions, social support, social participation, cancer screening, immunization and keeping active.
Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA)
Minutes/week spent in ≥10-min bouts of MVPA
Time frame: Change score: 9 weeks score - baseline score
Quality of Life-Euroqol 5D (EQ5D)
The EQ5D captures five dimensions of health (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression) over 5 levels (no problem, slight problem, moderate problem, severe problem, unable to perform/extreme problem).
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Exercise Self-Efficacy- Self-Efficacy for Exercise (SEE) scale
Individuals are asked to rate their confidence in their ability to exercise. Confidence ratings range from 0 (not confident) to 10 (very confident).
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Exercise Expectations-Outcome Expectations for Exercise-2 (OEE-2) scale
This is a 13-item instrument focused on beliefs about the positive and negative physical and mental health benefits of exercise. Responses range from 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree).
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Mindfulness- Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Frieberg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI)
The MAAS scale is comprised of 15 items measured on a 6-point scale (1=almost always, 6=almost never). The FMI addresses 14 items with a four-point response scale (1=rarely, 4=almost always).
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Wellbeing-8-item Flourishing Scale
This scale assesses perceived success in relationships, self-esteem, and purpose.
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Pain-11 box numerical rating scale
An 11-box numerical rating scale (0=no pain, 10=the worst pain possible) will be used for spinal pain, and upper and lower extremities.
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Social Connectedness & Assurance
This includes two, eight-item questionnaires with a six-item scale (strongly agree, strongly disagree).
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Physical Activity-International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)
An adapted, nine-item instrument addressing days/week and minutes/day spent on physical activity in the past 7 days is used to measure physical activity.
Time frame: 0, 9 weeks
Satisfaction
Participants will rate their overall satisfaction (satisfied, completely dissatisfied) with the intervention.
Time frame: 9 weeks
Intervention Barriers
This qualitative, open ended assessment explores barriers to participation in the intervention.
Time frame: Planning phase, 0, 9 weeks
Intervention Facilitators
This qualitative, open ended assessment explores facilitators to participation in the intervention.
Time frame: Planning phase, 0, 9 weeks
Plan to share: No — Data will be provided in aggregate.
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