Exercise for everyone: a randomized controlled trial of project workout on wheels in promoting exercise among wheelchair users.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effectiveness of 2 home-based behavioral interventions for wheelchair users to promote exercise adoption and maintenance over 12 months.

Design

Randomized controlled trial, with participants stratified into groups based on disability type (stable, episodic, progressive) and support partner availability.

Setting

Exercise occurred in participant-preferred locations (eg, home, recreation center), with physiological data collected at a university-based exercise laboratory.

Participants

Inactive wheelchair users (N=128; 64 women) with sufficient upper arm mobility for arm-based exercise were enrolled. Participants on average were 45 years of age and lived with their impairment for 22 years, with spinal cord injury (46.1%) most commonly repor

SUBMITTER: Froehlich-Grobe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4610124 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature