Health Effects of Reducing Sedentary Behavior

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

21 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-08-13

Study Completion Date

2018-10-08

Brief Summary

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A recent review indicated that sedentary behavior has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality but the intervention studies frequently focus only on changing sedentary behavior (reducing sedentary time) without measuring health-associated outcomes. Elevated cortisol (related to stress) has been linked with health risks. Improved physical fitness has been linked with improved cortisol responses to psychosocial stressors. In addition, increased physical activity induced favorable effects upon low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, and total cholesterol. Previous study also indicated that increasing daily steps have positive effect on blood glucose in people with impaired glucose tolerance. Ultimately, the investigators think that sedentary intervention and stress management may have benefits on these health indicators. As such the investigators will examine whether sedentary intervention or stress management can have positive effect on human health by measuring salivary cortisol, blood lipid profile, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, resting energy expenditure, and body composition.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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General Population

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control group (C)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

An educational handout for sedentary behavior and weekly neutral topic videos

Sedentary behavior group (SB)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reducing sedentary behavior

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Educational handouts for sedentary behavior and strategies reducing sedentary behavior and weekly videos related to reduced sedentary behavior

Stress management group (SR)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Reducing stress

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Educational handouts for sedentary behavior and stress management handout and weekly videos related stress management

Interventions

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Reducing sedentary behavior

Educational handouts for sedentary behavior and strategies reducing sedentary behavior and weekly videos related to reduced sedentary behavior

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Reducing stress

Educational handouts for sedentary behavior and stress management handout and weekly videos related stress management

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control

An educational handout for sedentary behavior and weekly neutral topic videos

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age: 18-65 years.

Exclusion Criteria

* Unable/unwilling to provide informed consent.
* Having mobility impairment.
* Current severe untreated depression (i.e., score in the severe depression range on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HADS).
* Women who are pregnant or nursing.
* Currently smoking (within last 12 months).
* Currently use medications that affect salivary cortisol level (i.e. prednisone, dexamethasone).
* Have been diagnosed Addison's disease.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes