Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Ms Kate Kelley
ORCID ID
Contact details
Worthing & Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust
Worthing Hospital
Lyndhurst Road
Worthing
BN11 2DH
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1903 205111 x 4198
kate.kelley@wash.nhs.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0283122689
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To design an effective health promotion intervention for people aged 65 and over, which can be easily used by health care professionals as a tool to initiate health promotion advice and encourage health behaviour changes. The focus for behaviour change in this study was increasing healthy eating and activity levels in the intervention group.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Condition
Healthy living promotion
Intervention
Randomised controlled trial:
1. Health promotion intervention in leaflet form
2. Patient satisfaction questionnaire
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Self-reported behaviour and cognition changes on healthy eating and levels of activity.
Secondary outcome measures
1. Health survey (SF-12)
2. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12)
3. Quality of life (EuroQol)
Overall trial start date
01/01/2003
Overall trial end date
31/01/2004
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients aged 65 and over
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Senior
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
334 (final recruitment: 252)
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
01/01/2003
Recruitment end date
31/01/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Worthing & Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust
Worthing
BN11 2DH
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Sussex NHS Research Consortium (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2004 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15177835
Publication citations
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Results
Kelley K, Abraham C, RCT of a theory-based intervention promoting healthy eating and physical activity amongst out-patients older than 65 years., Soc Sci Med, 2004, 59, 4, 787-797, doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.11.036.