Recruiting

Movement Guidelines

Sponsor:

University of British Columbia

Code:

NCT06894914

Conditions

Frailty

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

24-hour Activity Counselling

Study Details

Brief summary:

Physically frail older adults often have chronic conditions that contribute to a higher chance of them being limited in daily activities and becoming dependent. Physical activity can help to better manage chronic conditions and prevent frailty. In this project, the counselling approach using the new Canadian 24-hour Movement Guidelines will be adapted for older adults at an early state of frailty. This new approach will be tested against the one in current use by physiotherapists. This ethics application will address the pilot implementation evaluation, including interviews and focus groups, conducted to refine the new approach.

Conditions

Frailty

Study ID

NCT06894914

Start date

Jan 30, 2026

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Dec 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 30, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Physiotherapists:

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Eligible PTs are those who self-report at least 40% of their caseload is working with older adults and practice in the in the Greater Vancouver Area. In addition, they are willing to:

1. participate in online training for the assigned physical activity counselling strategy
2. be randomised to one of the counselling groups.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Those who do not meet the Inclusion Criteria

Older adults:

Inclusion Criteria:

1. are age > 65 years
2. live in the community
3. have 1 or 2 of the deficits in the CHS index
4. have > 1 chronic conditions
5. are able to walk 3 metres with or without an assistive device
6. have a Mini-Mental State Examination score > 24/30
7. do not have a diagnosed psychiatric condition (e.g., depression)
8. understand, speak and read English proficiently
9. are willing to have their physiotherapy sessions audio-recorded
10. are able to provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Those who do not meet the Inclusion Criteria

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: 24-hour Activity Counselling

Participating physiotherapists will be trained to deliver counselling that focuses on increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, with a balance of activity, rest and sleep in a 24-hour day.

Patients (n=4) of these physiotherapists will receive the 24-hour Activitiy Counselling

active comparator: Current Physical Activity Counselling

Participating physiotherapists will continue delivering counselling that focuses on achieving 150 minutes/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, which is the current practice.

Patients (n=4) of these physiotherapists will receive the Current Physical Activitiy Counselling

Interventions

24-hour Activity Counselling

Physiotherapists will participate in the self-paced brief action planning (BAP) online training (2-4 hours long), followed by 2-3 hours of practice and feedback over the phone with an experienced BAP instructor. In addition, they will attend a 2-hour session with the research team on training around on prescribing physical activity while balancing with rest and sleep.

Once training is complete the PT can start implementing the counselling approach with the older adult patients.

Primary outcome measure

  • Patient's daily time in moderate/vigorous physical activity (minutes/day) [ Time Frame: 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Linda Li, PhD

604-207-4020lli@arthritisresearch.ca

Stephenie Therrien, BA

604-207-4053stherrien@arthritisresearch.ca

Locations

Arthritis Research Canada

Recruiting

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Y 3P2

Contacts

Stephanie Therrien, BA

604-207-4053stherrien@arthritisresearch.ca

Shireen Divecha

604-207-4041sdivecha@arthritisresearch.ca

More Information

Sponsor

University of British Columbia

Last update posted

Feb 20, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Keywords

  • Physiotherapy
  • Physical activity
  • Sleep
  • Counselling

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 British Columbia on 2026-02-20.