Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Active, not recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Promoting Active Healthy Lifestyle of Adolescents With Brain Damage Due to Traumatic Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy
Brief Summary:
Long hours of daily sitting and lack of Physical Activity (PA) are risk factors for morbidity and mortality.
People with movement disabilities, including adolescents with Cerebral Palsy (CP) tend to lead a sedentary life styl and have have poor physical fitness. Adolescents with CP where found to be inactive most of the day thus, they are in greater risk of disease than the general population. In addition, over the years, people with disabilities experience physical and functional deterioration. Reducing sedentary behavior and increasing daily activity can reduce health risk factors among the adolescents with CP, reduce secondary impairments and preserve function.
Interventions that included exercise alone has not resulted in physical activity and participating in a structured training did not continue after cessation intervention.
The objectives of this study are to establish effective programs aiming to promote an active life style among adolescents and young adults with CP and to evaluate there outcomes.
Specific objectives- Stage 1- Identifying barriers and facilitators for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents and young adults with CP. As well as, identifying mediators, needs and preferences for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents and young adults with CP.
Stage 2- Based on stage 1- Establishing an intervention for reducing sedentary behaviors and increasing physical activity among adolescents.
Stage 3- translating and developing questioners for the study.