Physical Therapists - Recommending EnhanceFitness to Expand Reach

NCT03139461 | Completed DMC

• 2 other identifiers: STUDY00001659U48DP005013
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of the study is to develop and test an intervention toolkit to increase the enrollment in EnhanceFitness (an evidence-based group physical activity program for older adults) at Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) sites through physical therapist referrals. A cluster-randomized trial will be used to compare current and intervention toolkit approaches to generating enrollment in EnhanceFitness at YMCAs. The objective of this trial is to compare the effectiveness and cost of the current approach for generating enrollment in EnhanceFitness ("business as usual" or "control arm") with the intervention toolkit that YMCA staff will use to engage physical therapists to refer their older adult patients to EnhanceFitness (the "intervention").

Conditions

Physical Activity; Aging

Keywords

Physical Therapy; Capacity Building; Clinical-Community Linkages

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• EF Enrollment

  Number of older adults that enroll in EF at YMCAs

  2 years

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Communications tracking

  2 years

• Staff time

  2 years

• Distribution of Marketing Materials

  2 years

• Provider recruitment practices

  1 year and 2 years

• PT Referred EF Enrollment

  2 years

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Receives PT-REFER Capacity-building toolkit to facilitate partnership building with physical therapists

Other: PT-REFER Capacity-building Toolkit

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Does not receive PT-REFER Capacity-building toolkit to guide partnership building, instead conducting business as usual.

Interventions

PT-REFER Capacity-building Toolkit OTHER

1. Written guidelines for building partnerships with physical therapists. Information includes information on who to contact, how to contact them, and how to present information about the program (e.g., evidence base, program structure) 2. Support from Change Agent 3. Technical Assistance Calls

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Eligible YMCA Associations are those that (1) currently operate one or more EF class, either in a YMCA branch or in a community setting, and (2) have two or more YMCA branches within their YMCA Association.

You may not qualify if:

• YMCA Associations not offering EF with actively enrolled participants and active classes as of November 2014 are not eligible.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Washington: lead
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator
• YMCA: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Health Promotion Research Center

Seattle, Washington, 98105, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Miruna Petrescu-Prahova, PhD

  University of Washington

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor, Health Services

Model Details: Cluster-randomized trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 26, 2017
• First Posted: May 4, 2017
• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2018
• Study Completion: September 1, 2019
• Last Updated: February 28, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)