HEALTH AND EXERCISE IN THE DEFENSE FORCES

NCT ID: NCT03539679

Last Updated: 2019-09-12

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

500 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-05-16

Study Completion Date

2020-07-31

Brief Summary

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The most important goal is to create a cost-effective, stimulating model for improving the employee's quality of life, work ability, and job satisfaction in the military operating environment. This is achieved by finding out how to activate an individual with the phone-based gaming and web-based feedback system to improve his physical condition. This study also tries to find out the adequate amount of physical activity to maintain the physical health of workers.

Personnel work ability, to work safe in service and effective operation capability of emergency forces require a worker's state of total well-being, in which the health and the physical condition are important parts. The changes in these affects the individual's fitness to military. This study develops a model to encourage an individual to carry out physical activity by himself. This will lead to reduce the sick leaves and improve the health and fitness.

Physical activity reduces morbidity. Professional soldiers must maintain their physical condition and skills. The study explores the optimum amount of working-age physical activity. It helps to maintain the working ability and one's fitness to field operations. With the help of the developed model it is possible cost-effectively activate a large number of employees to move more and to live more healthily.

Detailed Description

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In this study it will be used motion sensors which are sending feedback to individuals mobile phone. Feedback is also given by email and in an interview after analyzing data from cloud service.

In the beginning of the study it will analyzed blood test, salivary test, body composition, height weight and basic motion. All volunteers are also answering a questionnaire.

There will be an intervention group and a control group. The intervention group will receive feedback during the all six months they are carrying the motion sensor.

After 6 and 12 months the basic analyzes will be repeated. Sick leaves and the changes in the muscular fitness test and changes in the 12-minutes running test will be analyzed.

Conditions

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Physical Condition, Minor Psychological Component

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Intervention group and control group.
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Exclusion criteria is that a volunteer must be health enough to have permission to take part in the military fitness tests.

Study Groups

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Encouraging physical activity

Encouraging physical activity by using motion sensor and feedback.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Encouraging physical activity.

Intervention Type OTHER

Encouraging physical activity with motion sensor's feedback.

CONTROL GROUP

No intervention.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Encouraging physical activity.

Encouraging physical activity with motion sensor's feedback.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Voluntaries armed forces workers.

Exclusion Criteria

* Health enough to participate the military fitness test.
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Tampere University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Jyvaskyla

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

UKK Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Tampere University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

PROF EMER, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE

HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

PROF, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ

Locations

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Kai Parkkola

Tampere, , Finland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Finland

Central Contacts

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KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER

Role: CONTACT

+358 40 5003116

HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF

Role: CONTACT

+358 40 5408703

Other Identifiers

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R16189

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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