10,000 Step Club: Community Walking Program for People with Parkinson's Disease

NCT ID: NCT06605183

Last Updated: 2024-09-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-09-11
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-20

Brief Summary

The 10,000 Step Club (10KSTC) is a 6-month community walking program for people with Parkinson's disease (PwP) and their caregivers in Las Vegas, Nevada (LV). This program will consist of several weekly, organized walking groups in local parks throughout the LV Valley. Participants in the program will use Nordic walking poles during the walks. Each walking group will meet once per week at a local park and will be supervised by walking group leaders from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There will be three walking programs throughout the Las Vegas valley. Participants will be given a step watch to wear step counts will be tracked in real-time. The program is designed to get PwP out of their homes, cultivate a culture of connection with others with Parkinson's disease (PD), and to be collectively accountable for a common goal toward 10,000 steps per day.

Detailed Description

The 10,000 Step Club (10KSC) is a 6-month community walking program conducted at various local parks in Las Vegas (LV), Nevada for people with Parkinson's disease (PD). There will be three walking groups and each group will meet at a local park once weekly for a 60-minute walk. These walking groups will be led by UNLV physical therapy students who will organize, coordinate, and manage the different walking groups. Participants will be encouraged to attend at least one walking group per week in their area but will be permitted to participate at the other walking groups on different days if they desire to get in a second or third walk that week. Participants in the program will use Nordic walking poles to promote stability and upright posture, and to encourage full body movement and arm use.

There will be three different walking groups throughout Las Vegas in areas with few PD exercise programs and higher proportions of people with Parkinson's disease in lower socioeconomic regions and historically underserved areas. The 10KSC program will be offered in both English and Spanish. Participants will be given a step watch to wear over the 6 months of the program and will be encouraged to build up their physical activity to eventually average 10,000 steps per day. The watches will be used to track step counts in real-time and there will be an incentive program to motivate participants and recognize achievements related to program goals. The program is designed to get people with Parkinson's disease out of their homes, cultivate a culture of connection with others with Parkinson's disease to decrease social isolation and loneliness, and to be collectively accountable for a common goal toward more physical activity. The 10KSC will be evaluated for effectiveness, feasibility, and safety. The program will target recruitment of 60 participants with Parkinson's disease. Participation will be free of charge and care partners will be encouraged to participate as well. The program inclusion criteria will be "pragmatic" which means that there will be few exclusion criteria and the only inclusion criterion will be a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease by a neurologist.

Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

One hour per week of community walking for 6 months

Participants will participate in one, 60-minute group walk using Nordic poles at a local community park. Participants will be assessed before and after the 6-month program.

Group Type: OTHER

Community walking program using Nordic walking poles

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This is a group, community walking program at local parks using Nordic walking poles. Participants will be encouraged to walk briskly but safely for 60 minutes one time per week with the ultimate goal of using this community walking program to build up their step count to 10,000 steps per day. We do not anticipate that the weekly walk will get them to 10,000 steps but we will use that as a weekly event to drive behavioral change throughout the week.

Interventions

Community walking program using Nordic walking poles

This is a group, community walking program at local parks using Nordic walking poles. Participants will be encouraged to walk briskly but safely for 60 minutes one time per week with the ultimate goal of using this community walking program to build up their step count to 10,000 steps per day. We do not anticipate that the weekly walk will get them to 10,000 steps but we will use that as a weekly event to drive behavioral change throughout the week.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 30-85 years old
• Neurologist-diagnosed Parkinson's disease
• Able to walk independently with or without a walking aid (e.g., cane, walker)
• Willing to participate in a 6-month study

Exclusion Criteria

• Health diagnosis that would limit exercise participation (e.g., heart problems, uncontrolled blood pressure, exercise-induced asthma).
• Dementia. This will be determined by completing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
• Participants with poor walking ability (determined using the Timed Up and Go Test during initial testing).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Merrill Landers

Primary investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Gait and Balance Laboratory, 217 Bigelow Health Sciences Building, UNLV

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Merrill R Landers, DPT, PhD

Role: CONTACT

merrill.landers@unlv.edu

702-895-1377

Facility Contacts

Merrill R Landers, DPT, PhD

Role: primary

merrill.landers@unlv.edu

702-895-1377

Other Identifiers

UNLVPT 10KSC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id