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Research Study

SuPA Mobility Study

Does health coaching or health education improve physical activity and mobility?

Currently Recruiting

Health Areas

Exercise and Physical Fitness, Other General Health , Mobility, Other Older Adults

Study Purpose

To investigate the effects of six months of one-on-one health coaching or group health education sessions on physical activity and mobility in older adults experiencing some challenges with their mobility.

Details

First, a research assistant will contact you for a 15-minute telephone call to ask some eligibility questions. If eligible after the telephone call, we will schedule an in-person screening session. There are 4 measurement sessions at the beginning, 13 weeks, 26 weeks, and 52 weeks at the Vancouver General Hospital Research Pavilion. These sessions measure memory and thinking abilities, mobility, and questionnaires. After the baseline measurement session, participants are randomly assigned to an individual health coaching or group health education program. There are nine sessions across 6 months. Contact Victoria Cirone at 604-875-4111 ext. 69313 if you have questions about the study.

location

Lower Mainland

recruitment end date

2026-04-16

eligibility

Age: 70 Years - 89 Years Old

Accepting Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Research Team Information

Principal investigator

Teresa Liu-Ambrose

health authority affiliation

Vancouver Coastal Health

academic affiliation

University of British Columbia - Vancouver

collaborators

jennifer.davis@ubc.ca

ryan.falck@ubc.ca

lli@arthritisresearch.ca

kenneth.madden@ubc.ca

hubert.wong@ubc.ca

mohsen.sadatsafavi@ubc.ca

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