Abstract
to usual ERS alone (control) or usual ERS plus e-coachER (intervention). Setting Primary care and ERS in three UK sites from 2015 to 2018. Participants 450 inactive ERS referees with chronic health conditions. Interventions Participants received a pedometer, PA recording sheets and a user guide for the web-based support. e-coachER interactively encouraged the use of the ERS and other PA options. Main outcome measures Primary and key secondary outcomes were: objective moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) minutes (in ≥10min bouts and without bouts), respectively, after 12 months. Secondary outcomes were: other accelerometer-derived and self-reported PA measures, ERS attendance, EQ-5D-5L, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and beliefs about PA. All outcomes were collected at baseline, 4 and 12 months. Primary analysis was an intention to treat comparison between intervention and control arms at 12-month follow-up.
Results There was no significant effect of the intervention on weekly MVPA at 12 months between the groups recorded in ≥10min bouts (mean difference 11.8min of MVPA, 95%CI: −2.1 to 26.0; p=0.10) or
without bouts (mean difference 13.7min of MVPA,
95%CI: −26.8 to 54.2; p=0.51) for 232 participants
with usable data. There was no difference in the primary
or secondary PA outcomes at 4 or 12 months.
Conclusion Augmenting ERS referrals with web-based
behavioural support had only a weak, non-significant
effect on MVPA.
Trial registration number ISRCTN15644451.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 444-450 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | British Journal of Sports Medicine |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Early online date | 27 Nov 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2021 |
Funding
Competing interests All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure forms at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare support from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Health Technology Assessment grant 13/20/25 for the submitted work. CM declares that she is an employee of the Public Health Team in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, a Health Board which funds and manages one of the exercise referral scheme included in the study. KJ declares that she is partly funded by NIHR ARC West Midlands and is a subpanel chair of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health Research. NM declares grants from NIHR during the conduct of the study and personal fees for work in relation to UK physical guidelines revision outside the submitted work. LP reports: grants from Living Streets Charity, personal fees from NIHR, personal fees from NIHR PHR, personal fees from NIHR PHR rapid response, grants from Wellcome Trust seed corn (internal funding) outside the submitted work; the physical activity group in Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter has a collaboration with Activinsights (the manufacturer of the physical activity monitor) to provide study design advice and data analysis—the analysis of the physical activity data in the present study was not undertaken as part of this service. SGD is partly funded by the South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaboration. LY is partly supported by the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. All other authors have no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years and have no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. Funding This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Health Technology Assessment Programme (grant reference: 13/25/20). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.