Asthma Control: Increased Physical Activity in Young Adults

NCT04944199 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2021-0434
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 15
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Investigators want to study to see if patients who participate in a physical activity intervention involving increasing daily step counts will have better mini asthma quality of life questionnaire (Mini AQLQ) scores at the end of the study period compared to patients that are in the control group and do not increase daily step counts. Participants will be randomized into the two groups.

Conditions

Asthma in Young Adults

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire Score as a result of increased physical activity.

  Any improvement in the score will be considered an improvement, since other than physical activity changes via step counts no other pharmacologic or lifestyle intervention will be made. Results will be compared to a control group who complete the survey without any intervention at two dates separated in time. Improvement in asthma symptoms can improve quality of life for participants. As noted by developers of the questionnaire being used in this study, "the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire has been developed to measure the functional (physical, emotional, occupational and social) problems that are most troublesome to adults with asthma … the impact that asthma has on a patient's quality of life cannot be inferred from the clinical indices." Descriptive statistics including means, standard deviations, medians, and interquartile ranges for continuous variables and frequency counts and percentages for categorical variables will be presented.

  6 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Intervention Group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: Physical Activity

Interventions

Physical Activity OTHER

Intervention group participants will be enrolled in a standardized step-based program to gradually increase their physical activity. Daily steps will be measured via a pedometer application on a smartphone or wearable device, with a gradual increase in the goal on a weekly basis, with a target intervention of around 4-6 weeks in total. The first week's step count will be used to calculate a baseline step count for the week. At the start of each week, the participants will be asked to increase their daily step counts by 1,000.

Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Patients within the Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre Primary Care clinic with a diagnosis of mild to moderate asthma

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with any medical history which would prohibit their ability to participate in increased exercise, and/or patients that are diagnosed or associated with severe asthma

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Geisinger Clinic: lead

Study Sites (1)

Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre Primary Care Clinic

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 18702, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Exercise

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Jason Woloski, MD

  Geisinger Clinic

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine; Assistant Program Director, Geisinger Kistler Family Medicine Residency; Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 21, 2021
• First Posted: June 29, 2021
• Study Start: July 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2021
• Study Completion: April 30, 2022
• Last Updated: August 4, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)