PROMOTE

The subproject PROMOTE has the objective to develop different types of interventions to promote physical activity behavior in older adults and compare their effectiveness.

Background

Regular physical activity promotes the maintenance of health and well-being. However, only a minority of older adults report to be sufficiently physical active. Previous interventions to increase the level of physical activity in the population have had only limited success. One possible reason for the insufficient results may be that many interventions follow a `one size fits all` approach and had not been tailored enough to the individual requirements and needs of the participants. The use of modern technologies (e.g. step counters; web-based services) to promote physical activity could facilitate tailoring activity programs to individual requirements, increase motivation for physical activity and enable objective monitoring of the activity. The optimal form of customization and monitoring, especially for older people, is still unclear. This is where the PROMOTE project comes in.

Approach

PROMOTE compares the effects of two tailored web-based 10-week interventions (intervention group 1 gets access to the website with a movement diary; intervention group 2: the website is additionally linked to a pedometer) with a waiting list control group. The intervention is developed in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to promote physical activity. Dependent variables are indicators of healthy ageing (e.g. fitness, psychological well-being, cognitive performance, social participation, health behavior). The intervention is tailored to the age, gender, current fitness and motivation of the participant.

Research team:
Prof. Dr. Sonia Lippke, Constructor University Bremen (project leader)
Dr. Claudia Pischke, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS (project leader)
Prof. Dr. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, University Münster
Jochen Meyer, OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology

Funded by
BMBF

Funding period
2015-2023

Further information
From the project is possibility of further education for exercise leaders who act with older persons.
For more information, see the flyer below. Here you can find further Weblinks

Contact: Prof. Dr. Claudia Voelcker-Rehage

This project is supported