Pain & Aging: Combined Interventions for Fitness in the Community Study
Active, not recruitingNot applicableNCT04099394
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This clinical trial will determine the added benefit of combining exercise and behavioral health education (versus exercise and aging and health education) to improve physical activity in community-dwelling older adults who have painful knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Study details
- Official title
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Group-Based Exercise and Behavioral Health Skills Training for Older Adults with Painful Knee Osteoarthritis
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Behavioral Health
- Behavioral: Health Education
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Start date
- 2019-10-30
- Primary completion
- 2025-01-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion criteria: * Age 65 years or older * Community-dwelling * Physician diagnosis of knee OA * Knee pain that occurs almost daily for at least the past 3 months * Knee pain-related difficulty with walking or climbing stairs * Stiffness in the knee for \<30 min/day in the morning * Crepitus in the knee Exclusion criteria: * Non-English speaking * Cognitive impairment (Mini-Cog score ≤3) * Unable or unwilling to give informed consent or accept randomization in either study group * Unwilling to wear a thigh-mounted accelerometer for 1 week * Significant, non-corrected visual or hearing impairment * Plans to move out of the area in the next 12 months * Plans to have knee, hip, or any other major surgery (including joint replacement) in the next 12 months * Unable to walk a quarter of a mile independently (use of a straight cane is acceptable) * Prior participation in cognitive-behavioral therapy or counseling for pain * Exercises regularly (≥20 minutes/week of walking, hiking, dancing, or strength training, or participate in water exercise) * Temporary exclusion: Any of the following in the past 6 months: cancer requiring treatment (except for non-melanoma skin cancer), heart attack or failure, stroke, hip fracture, hip/knee replacement, spinal surgery, heart surgery, deep vein thrombosis, or pulmonary embolus * Temporary exclusion: Hospitalization in the past month * Temporary exclusion: Currently undergoing physical therapy or rehabilitation treatment for knee OA or impairments in mobility function
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04099394