Accessible Mobile Health and Wellness

Kristin Zhao, PhD2 enrolled

Overview

Can community outreach education help develop self-sustaining wellness and exercise programs, and will associated wellness clinics help persons with a neurological physical disability achieve better well-being?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Physical Disability Neurologic Dysfunction

Interventions

EducationOTHER

Seminars about wellness and exercise, and resulting therapeutic programs, while living with a neurological physical disability.

Trial Exercise ModalitiesBEHAVIORAL

Wellness/exercise clinics located at Mayo Clinic, Rochester will be offered to persons with neurological physical disabilities on a regular basis, at least monthly, during the last half of the trial period.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * \[for community participants/caregivers/family members\] Ability to demonstrate clear communication and understanding of English. * \[for participants with neurological physical conditions\] Neurological physical conditions including cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, or similar diagnoses * \[for educational seminars\] \> 6 years of age. * \[for wellness/exercise clinic\] 18 65 years of age * \[for wellness/exercise clinic; participants with neurological physical conditions\] Clearance by primary care or treating physician Exclusion Criteria: * \[for participants with neurological physical conditions\] Unstable fractures * \[for participants with neurological physical conditions\] Uncontrolled hypertension (combined systolic/diastolic \> 140/90 mmHg) * \[for participants with neurological physical conditions\] Enrollment of individual deemed by study staff to be unsafe

Locations (1)

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Incidence of new self-sustaining wellness and exercise programs

Incidence of new self-sustaining wellness and exercise programs, as determined by Follow-up Site Staff Survey

Time frame: 3 months post end of wellness clinics

Secondary Outcomes

Efficacy of seminars for individuals with a neurological physical disability

Efficacy of seminars, as determined by repeated t-tests based on the Exercise Self-Efficacy Survey (ESES), a 10-question survey with scores of 1 to 4 (with 4 being the best outcome), summed for a minimum score of 10, and a maximum score of 40.

Time frame: 3 months post end of wellness clinics

Efficacy of seminars for caregivers and clinic staff of patients with neurological physical disabilities

Efficacy of seminars, as determined by repeated t-tests based on the Exercise Efficacy for Caregivers and Staff, a 10-question survey with scores of 1 to 4 (with 4 being the best outcome), summed for a minimum score of 10, and a maximum score of 40.

Time frame: 3 months post end of wellness clinics

Efficacy of wellness clinics

Efficacy of wellness clinics, as determined by repeated t-tests

Time frame: 3 months post end of wellness clinics

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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