Physical Exercise, Dietary Counseling and Cognitive Behavioral Training as a Combined Intervention to Reduce Weight and Increase Workability in Health Care Workers

NCT ID: NCT01015716

Last Updated: 2012-10-17

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

146 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-11-30

Study Completion Date

2012-05-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a 1 year worksite based life-style intervention can reduce body weight and increase physical capacity and subsequently reduce musculoskeletal disorders and increase workability in overweight health care workers.

Detailed Description

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Health care workers have a high rate of musculoskeletal disorders and sick leave and a poor workability and physical fitness. Most studies have focused on increasing physical fitness in order to increase workability and to reduce musculoskeletal disorders and sick leave. Studies however also show that many health care workers are obese and obesity has been linked to poor workability.

Limited research is available on the effect of reducing body-weight in this group in order to increase workability and to decrease musculoskeletal disorders and sick leave.

This study introduces a combined worksite based lifestyle intervention consisting of physical exercise, dietary counseling and cognitive behavioral training aimed at reducing weight in health care workers.

On specific worksites, health care workers are cluster randomized to either intervention or control group.

Effects on physical capacity, body composition, musculoskeletal disorders, workability and sick leave are evaluated before and after a 1 year intervention period

Conditions

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Overweight Physical Capacity Musculoskeletal Diseases Work Ability Sick-leave

Keywords

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Weight loss Physical activity Cognitive Behavioral Training

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Control-group

Invitation to attend a monthly seminar of 2 hour duration on a wide range of health related topics

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control-group

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Invitation to attend a monthly seminar of 2 hour duration on a wide range of health related topics

Intervention-group

Physical exercise, dietary counseling and cognitive behavioral training as a combined intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention-group

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Physical exercise, dietary counseling and cognitive behavioral training as a combined intervention

Interventions

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Intervention-group

Physical exercise, dietary counseling and cognitive behavioral training as a combined intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control-group

Invitation to attend a monthly seminar of 2 hour duration on a wide range of health related topics

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Overweight Health care workers, working more than 15 hours pr week

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnancy, angina pectoris and life-threatening diseases according to safty regulations for physical evaluation methods
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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The Danish Working Environment Research Foundation

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Ministry of Culture Committee on Sports Research, Denmark

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Aarhus

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jeanette R. Christensen, M.Sc. PT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Sport Science

Locations

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Department of Sport Science

Aarhus, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

References

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Christensen JR, Pajevic M, Ilvig PM, Sogaard K, Jessen-Winge C. Why people engage in a weight loss intervention at their workplace - a stratified case study. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jan 7;19(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6346-0.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30612549 (View on PubMed)

Christensen JR, Kongstad MB, Sjogaard G, Sogaard K. Sickness Presenteeism Among Health Care Workers and the Effect of BMI, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Muscle Strength. J Occup Environ Med. 2015 Dec;57(12):e146-52. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000576.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26641838 (View on PubMed)

Christensen JR, Overgaard K, Carneiro IG, Holtermann A, Sogaard K. Weight loss among female health care workers--a 1-year workplace based randomized controlled trial in the FINALE-health study. BMC Public Health. 2012 Aug 8;12:625. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-625.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 22871173 (View on PubMed)

Christensen JR, Faber A, Ekner D, Overgaard K, Holtermann A, Sogaard K. Diet, physical exercise and cognitive behavioral training as a combined workplace based intervention to reduce body weight and increase physical capacity in health care workers - a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2011 Aug 27;11:671. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-671.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 21871113 (View on PubMed)

Holtermann A, Jorgensen MB, Gram B, Christensen JR, Faber A, Overgaard K, Ektor-Andersen J, Mortensen OS, Sjogaard G, Sogaard K. Worksite interventions for preventing physical deterioration among employees in job-groups with high physical work demands: background, design and conceptual model of FINALE. BMC Public Health. 2010 Mar 9;10:120. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-120.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 20214807 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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FINALE-Health

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id