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Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in non-ambulant young people with long-term disabilities.
IRAS ID
271259
Contact name
Marilyn Bradbury
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 2 months, 29 days
Research summary
What are the aims?
• Develop a digitally-enabled intervention to help young people with long-term disabilities, who are unable to walk, spend less time being sedentary. Being sedentary means sitting or lying down whilst awake, and not using much energy.
• Develop the intervention in partnership with young people, their families, professionals and experts.
• Test the intervention with a small group, find out if it can be used in the NHS and prepare for a larger study.Why is this research being done?
• Long periods of sedentary time can lead to poor health, for example obesity, heart diseases, type II diabetes or mental health problems. Reducing and breaking up sedentary time can help to prevent poor health.
• Research shows that children with disabilities spend more time being sedentary than other children. Older children who are unable to walk are more sedentary than other children with disabilities.
• There are no evidence based interventions to help young people with disabilities to reduce their sedentary time.What are we going to do?
• We will follow a method based on previous research to develop the intervention, using models, theories and behaviour change techniques.
• Young people with disabilities, their families, professionals, and experts will contribute via an online platform (crowdsourcing) or focus groups.
• The intervention:
- might include advice, information, links to resources, monitoring of sedentary time, goal setting, rewards and interaction with others.
- could encourage use of standing frames or supportive walkers, active floor time or exercise whilst sitting.
• 20 people (aged 12 – 25 years) with a range of physical disabilities will test the intervention.
• Participants will wear accelerometers to record their body movements, and a heart rate monitor to measure sedentary time.
• Participants will test the intervention for 12 weeks.
• Participants will be interviewed and complete questionnaires before and after the intervention.REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/LO/0011
Date of REC Opinion
2 Oct 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion