Active and Healthy Ageing for All: a Multi-component Healthy Lifestyle Program (AHAA)

Active and Healthy Ageing for All: a Multi-component Healthy Lifestyle Program (AHAA)

AHAA is a healthy lifestyle program offered to older adults aged 60+ years. The program is developed based upon co-creation with the target group and implemented and evaluated in several locations.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Health Promotion
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: AHAA

Detailed Description

1. co-creation : all participants will be questioned and included in the co-creation session
2. implementation : the developed multicomponent healthy lifestyle program will be enrolled and implemented in 6 locations (community services for older adults in Flanders and Brussels)
3. evaluation : the program will be evaluated (effects and process)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 400
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Julie Vanderlinden, PHDc; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Aalst, Belgium, 9300
    • Recruiting
    • LDC
    • Contact: Julie Vanderlinden; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be
  • Brussel, Belgium, 1000
    • Recruiting
    • LDC
    • Contact: Julie Vanderlinden; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be
  • Gent, Belgium, 9000
    • Recruiting
    • Regie Ouderenzorg
    • Contact: Julie Vanderlinden; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be
  • Mechelen, Belgium, 2800
    • Recruiting
    • LDC
    • Contact: Julie Vanderlinden; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be
  • Sint-Truiden, Belgium, 2800
    • Recruiting
    • Triamant
    • Contact: Julie Vanderlinden; Phone Number: 003216321861; Email: julie.vanderlinden@odisee.be

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 60 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• age 60+ years

Exclusion Criteria:

• not being able to attend the weekly meetings

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Basic Science
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; Partcipants in this group will receive the 8 week healthy lifestyle program	Behavioral: AHAA; Multi-component healthy lifestyle program; Other Names: Active and healthy ageing for all
No Intervention: Control; Participants in this group will not receive any intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity measured by IPAQ	Subjective physical activity	up to twelve weeks
Physical activity measured by accelerometry	Objective physical activity	up to twelve weeks
Sedentary behaviour measured by accelerometry	Objective sedentary behaviour	up to twelve weeks
Sedentary behaviour measured by IPAQ	Subjective sedentary behaviour	up to twelve weeks
Nutrition questionnaire (self-reported)	Nutrition	up to twelve weeks
Sleep measured by accelerometry	Objective sleep	up to twelve weeks
Sleep measured by PSQI	Subjective sleep	up to twelve weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
well-being measured by WEMWBS	well-being	up to twelve weeks
Perceived stress measured by the perceived stress scale	Perceived stress of participants	up to twelve weeks
Perceived positive health status measured by a self-reported questionnaire	Perceived positive health status	up to twelve weeks
Health literacy measured by HLSQ self-reported questionnaire	Health literacy	up to twelve weeks
Social support measured by a self-reported questionnaire	Social Support	up to twelve weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: KU Leuven
• Collaborators: Odisee University college for applied sciences
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Julie Vanderlinden, PHDc, KU Leuven

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 15, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 22, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): January 27, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 21, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 18, 2022
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: healthy lifestyle; intervention; ageing
• Other Study ID Numbers: AHAA

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