Let's Get Moving augmented with a social action intervention

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Let's Get Moving augmented with a social action intervention

• IRAS ID

  164108

• Contact name

  Chris Beedie

• Contact email

  chb44@aber.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  ukactive

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The project examines the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) delivered by community exercise professionals (CEP) 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 (PA).
  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 by helping them understand barriers to PA, the benefits of PA and identifying how they might be more active.
  Participants will be randomised based upon the surgery they attend. Control surgeries will deliver the core Let’s Get Moving programme. Intervention surgeries will deliver a programme with increased social action and peer to peer interaction.

  Let’s Get Moving:
  Participants attend a motivational interviewing (MI) session with a CEP.

  Social Action:
  In addition to the above, participants have the option to attend weekly group MI sessions led by their CEP over a 12 week period, and join a facebook group created for participants.

  All participants receive a telephone call at six weeks and attend a 12 week follow up MI session with their CEP. Participants will be followed up at one year.
  Primary Outcomes:
  1. Uptake to pathway
  2. Transition from MI to community sports pathway
  3. Attendance at, and retention within community sports pathway
  4. Long term sustained behaviour change via 1x30 minute session of PA

  Secondary Outcomes:
  1. Self report - PA and sports participation levels
  2. Influence of social action pathway upon changes in PA levels and sporting participation

  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
  

• REC name

  London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/LO/1822

• Date of REC Opinion

  13 Oct 2014

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion