Let's Get Moving Back Into

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Let's Get Moving Back Into

• IRAS ID

  140499

• Contact name

  Chris Beedie

• Contact email

  chb44@aber.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Luton CCG

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 5 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  The project examines the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) delivered by community exercise professionals in GP surgeries. The aim is to encourage participants to enter a community sports pathway comprising of 12 exercise sessions, and to go on to sustain increased levels of physical activity. Physical activity levels will be monitored via accelerometer throughout the intervention and follow up period to determine effectiveness. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease will be measured at baseline and 12 weeks.

  Participants will be people aged between 18 and 74 who are inactive and overweight. The motivational interview is intended to help these people become more active through 1) helping them understand what stops them from living a more active lifestyle, 2) helping them understand why it might be beneficial to change their habits, and 3) exploring ways by which they might be more active. At the appropriate time, patients will be signposted to locally available community sporting activities and services.

  Participants will be invited to a second motivational interview 12 weeks following the first. In the intermediary time, they will have access to online support and face-to-face group MI sessions.

  Participants will be followed up at one year.

  
  Primary Outcomes:
  1. Uptake to MI pathway
  2. Transition from MI to community sports pathway
  3. Attendance at, and retention within community sports pathway
  4. Long term sustained behaviour change
  5. Changes in cardiovascular risk factors during intervention period

  Measures
  1. Total number of potential participants
  2. Number of participants attending one-to-one MI sessions
  3. Number of participants attending group MI sessions and log-ins to online support system
  4. Number of participants attending community sport sessions (electronic registers)
  5. Directly measured levels of physical activity
  6. Risk factors of cardiovascular disease: Blood pressure, cholesterol levels, fasting blood glucose levels, body composition analysis (body fat mass, lean mass and body fat percentage).

• REC name

  East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/EM/1047

• Date of REC Opinion

  15 Jul 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion