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NCT Number: NCT01609764

Physical Activity, Sleep and Age

Ageing is associated with a reduction of physical activity, movement efficiency, and quality of sleep. This leads to reduced health and well being in elderly subjects. Exercise training can increase movement efficiency and quality of sleep.

Objectives:

1. Laboratory validation test of body acceleration based indexes for movement efficiency and quality of sleep; 2. Cross-sectional analysis to assess relations between these indexes and age; 3. Intervention study to assess the effect of exercise training on daily life movement efficiency and quality of sleep in ageing subjects

45 healthy human volunteers, age 50-83 yr, BMI 20-30 kg/m2 are divided in control or intervention group. Subjects that will have practiced fitness activities in the previous year, as well as pregnant or lactating women, will be excluded.

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Key information

Conditions

Aging Movement Efficiency Sleep

Age range

50 year–85 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Maastricht University

Maastricht, Limburg, 6200 MD, Netherlands

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Men and women
  • Age between 50-85 years
  • No fitness activity in the previous year, to amplify training effects on movement efficiency and quality of sleep.
  • Body mass index between 20 and 30 kg/m2, obesity limits the training capacity of subjects.

Signed informed consent by the participants

Exclusion criteria

  • Age below 50 or above 85 years;
  • body mass index below 20 kg/m2 or above 30 kg/m2;
  • neurologic, cardiologic or invalidating orthopaedic disease;
  • pregnancy or lactation.

Treatment and study plan

One year fitness training

Behavioral

Regular training schedule of moderate intensity, at 50% of heart rate reserve, as available for the specific age group in fitness centres

Primary outcomes

  1. Changes in movement efficiency

    Time frame: At baseline and after 1 year

    The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in an index to assess daily life movement efficiency. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects daily life movement efficiency.

    The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of movement efficiency.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in quality sleep

    Time frame: At baseline and after 1 year

    The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in one index to assess quality of sleep in daily life. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects quality of sleep.

    The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of quality of sleep.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Maastricht University Medical Center

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Physical Activity and Movement Efficiency and Quality Sleep With Increasing Age

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jun 1, 2012
Registry last updated
Mar 16, 2016

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