AgingNCT05704660
Automatic Reaction to Physical Activity and Sedentary Stimuli in Aging
A study testing Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification task and Cognitive-biased modification task in people with Aging, run by University of Ottawa.
Trial summary
Most individuals are aware of the benefits to health of regular physical activity and have good intentions to exercise. Yet, 1.4 billion people worldwide are inactive, which suggests that turning intention into action can be challenging. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 60 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Aging
- What is being tested?
- Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification task and Cognitive-biased modification task
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
- How many people
- 216 participants
- Where
- No sites listed yet
- Study dates
- Sep 2023to Sep 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 60 years and older
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 60 years of age or older and able to understand instructions in English.
Who cannot join
- Diagnosed psychiatric disorders or neurological condition (e.g., stork, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dementia)
- Unable to carry out the training program
- Unable to understand the protocol
- Motor deficit preventing physical activity without external help
- Physical health status preventing physical activity
- Alcohol or substance dependence.
Trial locations and contacts
No sites are listed yet.
About this study
Official title: Retraining the Automatic Reaction to Physical Activity and Sedentary Stimuli in Adults 60 Years of Age or Older
Most individuals are aware of the benefits to health of regular physical activity and have good intentions to exercise. Yet, 1.4 billion people worldwide are inactive, which suggests that turning intention into action can be challenging. Recent findings show that the intention-action gap could be explained by negative automatic reactions (which is a component of dual-task theory) to stimuli associated with physical activity. This gap is particularly concerning in older adults, who are more likely to spontaneously associate physical activity with fear, pain, or discomfort. To promote physical activity, the current project proposes to train older adults to suppress their automatic attraction toward sedentary stimuli and to respond positively to physical-activity stimuli. This evidence-based and low-cost intervention aims to improve physical functioning and quality of life for these population. The results will inform public-health policies and improve clinical interventions that aim to counteract a global health problem: the pandemic of physical inactivity.
Read the detailed description
Physical activity is one of the top contributors to health, reducing rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and depression. This wide spectrum of benefits is particularly important for older adults, who often suffer structural and functional deterioration in several physiological systems. Physical activity can reduce and delay the impact of this age-related deterioration in health and functional independence. Current interventions to enhance physical activity in older adults rely mainly on reflective processes by providing rational information about the health benefits of a physically active lifestyle. While these interventions successfully increase intention, their effect on actual behavior is weak. That is, most individuals are now aware of the positive effects of regular physical activity and have the intention to exercise. However, this intention is not sufficient and exercise plans are often not executed. This gap between intention and action is a challenge that health professionals need to address to counteract the pandemic of physical inactivity. Recent findings suggest that this inability to turn the intention into action is explained by negative automatic reactions to stimuli associated with physical activity. These automatic reactions could be particularly strong in older adults, who are more likely to associate physical activity with fear, pain, or discomfort. This study aims to test the effect of an intervention that targets the automatic processes underlying physical inactivity in older adults. The intervention is expected to reduce physical inactivity during the intervention and at follow-up, thereby improving physical functioning and quality of life.
- Conditions
- Aging
- Being tested
- Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification task, Cognitive-biased modification task
- Keywords
- Attentional Bias, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior
- Medical subject headings
- Motor Activity, Sedentary Behavior
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification taskBehavioural
The intervention of the proposed project is based on a go/no-go task in which older adults need to quickly decide whether or not they should react to the stimulus. A rectangle containing an image, or a word will be presented on a screen. In the intervention group, older adults will be instructed to restrain their actions when the rectangle is tilted to the right and to react by pressing a key on the keyboard when the rectangle is tilted to the left, irrespective of the content of the rectangle (because the training is meant to be implicit). In order to train inhibitory processes counteracting the automatic attraction to sedentary behavior, 90% of the rectangles tilted to the right (counterbalanced across participants) will contain a picture or a word related to sedentary behavior. To foster the automatic attraction toward physical activity, 90% of the rectangles tilted to the left will contain a picture or a word related to physical activity.
Cognitive-biased modification taskBehavioural
In the comparison group, instructions will be identical, but the percentage of physical activity and sedentary stimuli will be equal in each tilt condition (i.e., 50% sedentary stimuli and 50% physical activity stimuli in both right- and left-tilted rectangles)
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Adjusted and modified Cognitive-Biased Modification Task | Experimental | The intervention is based on a Go/No-Go task. Receives: Behavioral: Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification task |
| Normal Cognitve-Biased modification Task | Placebo comparator | The Sham-intervention is based on a Go/No-Go task. Receives: Behavioral: Cognitive-biased modification task |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Physical activity Tracker
Assessing the number of step.
Measured: "7 days", at least "7 hours" per day (not to used it during shower or when they sleep at night).
Secondary outcomes (6)
International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Short Form)
The usual level of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in minutes per week will be assessed.
Measured: Before and after intervention ("10 minutes" to fill out)
Six-Minute Walk Test
Total distance walked in "6 minutes" will be documented. The outcome is the distance walked during the "6 minutes".
Measured: Before and after intervention ("6 minutes" to carry out)
Hand grip strength
The grip strength will be evaluated using a dynamometer. The higher the value obtained by the participant, the stronger the grip.
Measured: Before and after intervention ( "One minute" to carry out)
World Health Organization Quality of Life (BREF)
Assessing quality of life over four domains. Scores for each domain can range from zero to 100, with higher scores indicating better quality of life.
Measured: Before and after intervention ( "20 minutes" to carry out)
Approach-avoidance task
To measure automatic approach and avoidance tendencies toward physical activity and sedentary behaviors. Faster and the more accurate reaction toward a stimuli (e.g., physical activity) indicates a stronger tendency to approach that specific stimuli.
Measured: Before and after intervention, and at the beginning of each intervention session ("30 minutes" to carry out)
Explicit Affective Attitude Toward Physical Activity
Mean of two items based on two "7-point" scales (unpleasant-pleasant; unenjoyable-enjoyable). A higher score indicates more positive attitudes toward physical activity.
Measured: Before and after intervention ("2-5 minute" to carry out)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted30 Jan 2023
- Study startSep 2023 (estimated)
- Primary completionSep 2024 (estimated)
- Study completionSep 2025 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (15)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for AgingStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 216 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Ottawa
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Matthieu Boisgontier, University of Ottawa
- Investigators
- Matthieu P Boisgontier, PhD, Principal investigator, University of Ottawa
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05704660
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- H-09-22-8453
- Status last verified
- Jan 2023
- First submitted
- 10 Jan 2023
- Last updated
- 30 Jan 2023
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Guthold R, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Bull FC. Worldwide trends in insufficient physical activity from 2001 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 358 population-based surveys with 1.9 million participants. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Oct;6(10):e1077-e1086. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30357-7. Epub 2018 Sep 4.
PubMed 30193830Kohl HW 3rd, Craig CL, Lambert EV, Inoue S, Alkandari JR, Leetongin G, Kahlmeier S; Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group. The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health. Lancet. 2012 Jul 21;380(9838):294-305. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60898-8.
PubMed 22818941Cheval B, Boisgontier MP. The Theory of Effort Minimization in Physical Activity. Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2021 Jul 1;49(3):168-178. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000252.
PubMed 34112744Wiers RW, Eberl C, Rinck M, Becker ES, Lindenmeyer J. Retraining automatic action tendencies changes alcoholic patients' approach bias for alcohol and improves treatment outcome. Psychol Sci. 2011 Apr;22(4):490-7. doi: 10.1177/0956797611400615. Epub 2011 Mar 9.
PubMed 21389338Wittekind CE, Feist A, Schneider BC, Moritz S, Fritzsche A. The approach-avoidance task as an online intervention in cigarette smoking: a pilot study. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2015 Mar;46:115-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.08.006. Epub 2014 Sep 16.
PubMed 25306247Taylor CT, Amir N. Modifying automatic approach action tendencies in individuals with elevated social anxiety symptoms. Behav Res Ther. 2012 Sep;50(9):529-36. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.05.004. Epub 2012 May 23.
PubMed 22728645Aulbach MB, Knittle K, Haukkala A. Implicit process interventions in eating behaviour: a meta-analysis examining mediators and moderators. Health Psychol Rev. 2019 Jun;13(2):179-208. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1571933. Epub 2019 Feb 6.
PubMed 30676235Cheval B, Radel R, Neva JL, Boyd LA, Swinnen SP, Sander D, Boisgontier MP. Behavioral and Neural Evidence of the Rewarding Value of Exercise Behaviors: A Systematic Review. Sports Med. 2018 Jun;48(6):1389-1404. doi: 10.1007/s40279-018-0898-0.
PubMed 29556981Cheval B, Tipura E, Burra N, Frossard J, Chanal J, Orsholits D, Radel R, Boisgontier MP. Avoiding sedentary behaviors requires more cortical resources than avoiding physical activity: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia. 2018 Oct;119:68-80. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.029. Epub 2018 Jul 26.
PubMed 30056055Bull FC, Al-Ansari SS, Biddle S, Borodulin K, Buman MP, Cardon G, Carty C, Chaput JP, Chastin S, Chou R, Dempsey PC, DiPietro L, Ekelund U, Firth J, Friedenreich CM, Garcia L, Gichu M, Jago R, Katzmarzyk PT, Lambert E, Leitzmann M, Milton K, Ortega FB, Ranasinghe C, Stamatakis E, Tiedemann A, Troiano RP, van der Ploeg HP, Wari V, Willumsen JF. World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Br J Sports Med. 2020 Dec;54(24):1451-1462. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955.
PubMed 33239350Haseler C, Crooke R, Haseler T. Promoting physical activity to patients. BMJ. 2019 Sep 17;366:l5230. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5230. No abstract available.
PubMed 31530549Rhodes RE, Dickau L. Experimental evidence for the intention-behavior relationship in the physical activity domain: a meta-analysis. Health Psychol. 2012 Nov;31(6):724-7. doi: 10.1037/a0027290. Epub 2012 Mar 5.
PubMed 22390739Calitri R, Lowe R, Eves FF, Bennett P. Associations between visual attention, implicit and explicit attitude and behaviour for physical activity. Psychol Health. 2009 Nov;24(9):1105-23. doi: 10.1080/08870440802245306.
PubMed 20205048Conroy DE, Hyde AL, Doerksen SE, Ribeiro NF. Implicit attitudes and explicit motivation prospectively predict physical activity. Ann Behav Med. 2010 May;39(2):112-8. doi: 10.1007/s12160-010-9161-0.
PubMed 20140542Cheval B, Sarrazin P, Isoard-Gautheur S, Radel R, Friese M. Reflective and impulsive processes explain (in)effectiveness of messages promoting physical activity: a randomized controlled trial. Health Psychol. 2015 Jan;34(1):10-9. doi: 10.1037/hea0000102. Epub 2014 Aug 18.
PubMed 25133840
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 30 Jan 2023. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Retraining the Automatic Reaction to Physical Activity and Sedentary Stimuli in Adults 60 Years of Age or Older
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05704660
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- H-09-22-8453
- Conditions
- Aging
- Keywords
- Attentional Bias, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 216 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of OttawaUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Sep 2023 (estimated)
- Primary completion
- Sep 2024 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Sep 2025 (estimated)
- First posted
- 30 Jan 2023 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Most individuals are aware of the benefits to health of regular physical activity and have good intentions to exercise. Yet, 1.4 billion people worldwide are inactive, which suggests that turning intention into action can be challenging. Recent findings show that the intention-action gap could be explained by negative automatic reactions (which is a component of dual-task theory) to stimuli associated with physical activity. This gap is particularly concerning in older adults, who are more likely to spontaneously associate physical activity with fear, pain, or discomfort. To promote physical activity, the current project proposes to train older adults to suppress their automatic attraction toward sedentary stimuli and to respond positively to physical-activity stimuli. This evidence-based and low-cost intervention aims to improve physical functioning and quality of life for these population. The results will inform public-health policies and improve clinical interventions that aim to counteract a global health problem: the pandemic of physical inactivity.
Detailed description
Physical activity is one of the top contributors to health, reducing rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and depression. This wide spectrum of benefits is particularly important for older adults, who often suffer structural and functional deterioration in several physiological systems. Physical activity can reduce and delay the impact of this age-related deterioration in health and functional independence. Current interventions to enhance physical activity in older adults rely mainly on reflective processes by providing rational information about the health benefits of a physically active lifestyle. While these interventions successfully increase intention, their effect on actual behavior is weak. That is, most individuals are now aware of the positive effects of regular physical activity and have the intention to exercise. However, this intention is not sufficient and exercise plans are often not executed. This gap between intention and action is a challenge that health professionals need to address to counteract the pandemic of physical inactivity. Recent findings suggest that this inability to turn the intention into action is explained by negative automatic reactions to stimuli associated with physical activity. These automatic reactions could be particularly strong in older adults, who are more likely to associate physical activity with fear, pain, or discomfort. This study aims to test the effect of an intervention that targets the automatic processes underlying physical inactivity in older adults. The intervention is expected to reduce physical inactivity during the intervention and at follow-up, thereby improving physical functioning and quality of life.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Adjusted and modified Cognitive-Biased Modification Task | Experimental | Behavioral: Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification taskThe intervention is based on a Go/No-Go task. |
| Normal Cognitve-Biased modification Task | Placebo comparator | Behavioral: Cognitive-biased modification taskThe Sham-intervention is based on a Go/No-Go task. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 60 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- 60 years of age or older and able to understand instructions in English.
Key exclusion criteria (6 listed)
- Diagnosed psychiatric disorders or neurological condition (e.g., stork, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dementia)
- Unable to carry out the training program
- Unable to understand the protocol
- Motor deficit preventing physical activity without external help
- Physical health status preventing physical activity
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification taskThe intervention of the proposed project is based on a go/no-go task in which older adults need to quickly decide whether or not they should react to the stimulus. A rectangle containing an image, or a word will be presented on a screen. In the intervention group, older adults will be instructed to restrain their actions when the rectangle is tilted to the right and to react by pressing a key on the keyboard when the rectangle is tilted to the left, irrespective of the content of the rectangle (because the training is meant to be implicit). In order to train inhibitory processes counteracting the automatic attraction to sedentary behavior, 90% of the rectangles tilted to the right (counterbalanced across participants) will contain a picture or a word related to sedentary behavior. To foster the automatic attraction toward physical activity, 90% of the rectangles tilted to the left will contain a picture or a word related to physical activity. | Behavioural | Adjusted and modified Cognitive-Biased Modification Task |
| Cognitive-biased modification taskIn the comparison group, instructions will be identical, but the percentage of physical activity and sedentary stimuli will be equal in each tilt condition (i.e., 50% sedentary stimuli and 50% physical activity stimuli in both right- and left-tilted rectangles) | Behavioural | Normal Cognitve-Biased modification Task |
Primary outcome
Physical activity Tracker
Time frame: "7 days", at least "7 hours" per day (not to used it during shower or when they sleep at night).
Assessing the number of step.
6 secondary outcomes
International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Short Form)
Time frame: Before and after intervention ("10 minutes" to fill out)
Six-Minute Walk Test
Time frame: Before and after intervention ("6 minutes" to carry out)
Hand grip strength
Time frame: Before and after intervention ( "One minute" to carry out)
World Health Organization Quality of Life (BREF)
Time frame: Before and after intervention ( "20 minutes" to carry out)
Approach-avoidance task
Time frame: Before and after intervention, and at the beginning of each intervention session ("30 minutes" to carry out)
Explicit Affective Attitude Toward Physical Activity
Time frame: Before and after intervention ("2-5 minute" to carry out)
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 30 Jan 2023.
- Background: PubMed 30193830Guthold R, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Bull FC. Worldwide trends in insufficient physical activity from 2001 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 358 population-based surveys with 1.9 million participants. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Oct;6(10):e1077-e1086. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30357-7. Epub 2018 Sep 4.
- Background: PubMed 22818941Kohl HW 3rd, Craig CL, Lambert EV, Inoue S, Alkandari JR, Leetongin G, Kahlmeier S; Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group. The pandemic of physical inactivity: global action for public health. Lancet. 2012 Jul 21;380(9838):294-305. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60898-8.
- Background: PubMed 34112744Cheval B, Boisgontier MP. The Theory of Effort Minimization in Physical Activity. Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2021 Jul 1;49(3):168-178. doi: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000252.
- Background: PubMed 21389338Wiers RW, Eberl C, Rinck M, Becker ES, Lindenmeyer J. Retraining automatic action tendencies changes alcoholic patients' approach bias for alcohol and improves treatment outcome. Psychol Sci. 2011 Apr;22(4):490-7. doi: 10.1177/0956797611400615. Epub 2011 Mar 9.
- Background: PubMed 25306247Wittekind CE, Feist A, Schneider BC, Moritz S, Fritzsche A. The approach-avoidance task as an online intervention in cigarette smoking: a pilot study. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2015 Mar;46:115-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.08.006. Epub 2014 Sep 16.
- Background: PubMed 22728645Taylor CT, Amir N. Modifying automatic approach action tendencies in individuals with elevated social anxiety symptoms. Behav Res Ther. 2012 Sep;50(9):529-36. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.05.004. Epub 2012 May 23.
- Background: PubMed 30676235Aulbach MB, Knittle K, Haukkala A. Implicit process interventions in eating behaviour: a meta-analysis examining mediators and moderators. Health Psychol Rev. 2019 Jun;13(2):179-208. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2019.1571933. Epub 2019 Feb 6.
- Background: PubMed 29556981Cheval B, Radel R, Neva JL, Boyd LA, Swinnen SP, Sander D, Boisgontier MP. Behavioral and Neural Evidence of the Rewarding Value of Exercise Behaviors: A Systematic Review. Sports Med. 2018 Jun;48(6):1389-1404. doi: 10.1007/s40279-018-0898-0.
- Background: PubMed 30056055Cheval B, Tipura E, Burra N, Frossard J, Chanal J, Orsholits D, Radel R, Boisgontier MP. Avoiding sedentary behaviors requires more cortical resources than avoiding physical activity: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia. 2018 Oct;119:68-80. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.07.029. Epub 2018 Jul 26.
- Background: PubMed 33239350Bull FC, Al-Ansari SS, Biddle S, Borodulin K, Buman MP, Cardon G, Carty C, Chaput JP, Chastin S, Chou R, Dempsey PC, DiPietro L, Ekelund U, Firth J, Friedenreich CM, Garcia L, Gichu M, Jago R, Katzmarzyk PT, Lambert E, Leitzmann M, Milton K, Ortega FB, Ranasinghe C, Stamatakis E, Tiedemann A, Troiano RP, van der Ploeg HP, Wari V, Willumsen JF. World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Br J Sports Med. 2020 Dec;54(24):1451-1462. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102955.
- Background: PubMed 31530549Haseler C, Crooke R, Haseler T. Promoting physical activity to patients. BMJ. 2019 Sep 17;366:l5230. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5230. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 22390739Rhodes RE, Dickau L. Experimental evidence for the intention-behavior relationship in the physical activity domain: a meta-analysis. Health Psychol. 2012 Nov;31(6):724-7. doi: 10.1037/a0027290. Epub 2012 Mar 5.
- Government of Canada. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep (PASS) indicatorsLink provided by the sponsor.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Matthieu P Boisgontier, PhD principal investigator
University of Ottawa
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Adjusted Cognitive-biased modification task and Cognitive-biased modification task in people with Aging, run by University of Ottawa.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 30 Jan 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Matthieu P. Boisgontier, PhD (6135625408, matthieu.boisgontier@uottawa.ca), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Physical activity Tracker (time frame: "7 days", at least "7 hours" per day (not to used it during shower or when they sleep at night).). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05704660, which also lists 15 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 30 Jan 2023.