This study aims to increase physical activity among overweight African-American women with mobility limitations.
Regular, sustainable physical activity can have a dramatic effect on reducing obesity and other secondary conditions and increasing quality of life. People with mobility limitations have a higher level of physical inactivity resulting from numerous personal and environmental barriers to physical activity participation. This project will evaluate the feasibility of increasing physical activity among overweight individuals with mobility limitations through physician-referrals to a personalized exercise programme at the Chicago-based National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
96
Physician referred overweight and obese clients to 24 month personalized exercise programme at the U. of Illinois, Chicago
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Physical activity
Physical activity was assessed using the Physical Activity and Disability Scale (PADS), the Barriers to Physical Activity and Disbility Scale (B-PADS), (Rimmer et al 2000) and the Mobility Limitation score (Velozo et al 1999).
Time frame: 24 months
Body mass index (BMI)
Derived emperically
Time frame: 24 months
Blood lipids
Derived emperically
Time frame: 24 months
Weight
Derived emperically
Time frame: 24 months
Blood Pressure
Dervied emperically
Time frame: 24 months
Psychosocial Health
Confirmed using the Quality of Wellbeing scale (Anderson et al 1989), and CARDIA-2 scale, an 11-item assessment (Allen et al 2001).
Time frame: 24 months
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