HEALTH AND EXERCISE IN THE DEFENSE FORCES

TERVEYS JA LIIKUNTA PUOLUSTUSVOIMISSA

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Physical Condition, Minor Psychological Component
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Encouraging physical activity.

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 500
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER; Phone Number: +358 40 5003116; Email: kai.parkkola@staff.uta.fi
• Study Contact Backup: Name: HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF; Phone Number: +358 40 5408703; Email: heikki.kyrolainen@jyu.fi

Study Locations

• Finland
  • Tampere, Finland, 33014
    • Recruiting
    • Kai Parkkola
    • Principal Investigator: EMILIA PIETILÄINEN, MD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 19 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Voluntaries armed forces workers.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Health enough to participate the military fitness test.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Encouraging physical activity; Encouraging physical activity by using motion sensor and feedback.	Other: Encouraging physical activity.; Encouraging physical activity with motion sensor's feedback.
No Intervention: CONTROL GROUP; No intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Better physical condition.	12-minutes running test are measured.	6 months.
Less sick leaves.	The amount of sick leaves are measured.	From past 12 months up to next 12 months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Positive changes in the TELI v 1.0 questionnaire.	Number of participants with better outcome in health habits (sleeping, eating, exercise).	6 months.
Better physical condition.	Muscular fitness test.	6 months.

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Better physical condition.	12-minutes running test are measured.	12 months.
Better physical condition.	Muscular fitness test.	12 months.
Positive changes in the TELI v 1.0 questionnaire.	Number of participants with better outcome in health habits (sleeping, eating, exercise).	12 months.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital
• Collaborators: Tampere University; UKK Institute; University of Jyvaskyla
• Investigators: Study Director: KAI I PARKKOLA, PROF EMER, PROF EMER, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE; Study Director: HEIKKI KYRÖLÄINEN, PROF, PROF, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 16, 2018
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Anticipated): July 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 25, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 16, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): May 29, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 12, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 11, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Exercise, sickness absences, health, military fitness
• Other Study ID Numbers: R16189

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No