Validation, Reliability and Pilot Test of the Personalized Exercise Questionnaire (PEQ)

NCT ID: NCT03125590

Last Updated: 2017-08-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 114 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2017-08-11

Brief Summary

The PEQ is the first tool to measure facilitators, barriers, and preferences to exercise in people with osteoporosis.

Detailed Description

Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue. This disease can increase the risk of bone fragility fractures and is indirectly associated with premature death. These fractures are more common than cancer or heart disease in North American women 50 years or older, with an osteoporotic fracture occurring every 3 seconds worldwide, and are a major issue to patients and the healthcare system. Increased fracture rates, particularly in the hip and spine, may lead to hospitalization and subsequent immobility.

Some studies have shown fitness to be a better predictor of bone mineral density than age, yet adherence to exercise is poor. Studies suggest that 50% of those registered in an exercise program drop out within the first 6 months, lack of time being the number one barrier in many populations. To increase adherence to an exercise program, a systematic review has identified a number of facilitators and barriers to exercise in adults with osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Hitherto, no measurement tool has been created to measure these facilitators and barriers in people with osteoporosis. The investigators have developed and validated the PEQ (Personalized Exercise Questionnaire), a new tool that can measure the facilitators, barriers, and preferences to exercise. The next steps are to test the reliability, known-group validity, and pilot test this tool in the osteoporosis population.

Future physical activity or exercise interventions could benefit from using this tool to leveraging the facilitators and limiting the barriers to exercise to increase adherence to an exercise program.

Conditions

Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal; Osteopenia

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Testing the PEQ (Personalized Exercise Questionnaire)

Administer the questionnaire to 114 participants to classify their facilitators, barriers and preferences to exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. The participant is able and willing to provide informed consent

2. The participant is male or female, 18+

3. The participant has received a diagnosis, from a physician, of primary osteopenia or osteoporosis (T < - 1.0)

4. The participant can read and write English

Exclusion Criteria

1. The participant has been diagnosed with secondary osteopenia or osteoporosis

2. The participant has a history of smoking, alcoholism, gastrointestinal disease, hypercalciuria and/or steroid use.

3. The participant is diagnosed with a reading disability or dyslexia

4. The participant has a cognitive impairment of some severity as to adversely affect the validity of the data

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Isabel Rodrigues

Master's student

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

St. Joseph's Health Care Centre; Charlton Site

Hamitlon, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Rodrigues IB, Adachi JD, Beattie KA, Lau A, MacDermid JC. Determining known-group validity and test-retest reliability in the PEQ (personalized exercise questionnaire). BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2019 Aug 14;20(1):373. doi: 10.1186/s12891-019-2761-3.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 31412834 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

05141991

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id