Recruiting

Community Walking Program

Sponsor:

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Code:

NCT06605183

Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 30 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Community walking program using Nordic walking poles

Study Details

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.

Conditions

Parkinson Disease

Study ID

NCT06605183

Start date

Sep 11, 2024

Status verified date

Sep, 2024

Completion date

Dec 20, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec 20, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 30 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

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).

Study Design

Enrollment

60 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

other: 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.

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.

Primary outcome measure

  • Daily step count average [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the 6-month community walking program. ]
  • Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the 6-month community walking program. ]
  • Social isolation [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the 6-month community walking program. ]
  • Loneliness [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the 6-month community walking program. ]
  • Self-efficacy [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the 6-month community walking program. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Merrill R Landers, DPT, PhD

702-895-1377merrill.landers@unlv.edu

Locations

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

Recruiting

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89154

Contacts

Merrill R Landers, DPT, PhD

702-895-1377merrill.landers@unlv.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Last update posted

Sep 20, 2024

Last verified

Sep, 2024

Keywords

  • Exercise
  • Nordic walking
  • physical activity
  • social isolation
  • loneliness
  • fear of falling
  • walking

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Nevada, Las Vegas on 2024-09-20.