Trial reportBritish journal of sports medicine2021
Randomised controlled trial of an augmented exercise referral scheme using web-based behavioural support for inactive adults with chronic health conditions: the e-coachER trial.
Trial report in British journal of sports medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessing the Effectiveness of eHealth Interventions to Manage Multiple Lifestyle Risk Behaviors Among Older Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review and narrative synthesis of physical activity referral schemes' components.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Pooled it
- The Influence of Wearables on Health Care Outcomes in Chronic Disease: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of physical activity monitors in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Pooled it
- Web-based exercise interventions for patients with depressive and anxiety disorders: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Pooled it
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- A process evaluation, with mediation analysis, of a web-based intervention to augment primary care exercise referral schemes: the e-coachER randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Can a Spark Light an Eternal Flame? Lessons from Physical Activity Coaching in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Home-based physical activity strategies for healthy adults: A scoping review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Review
- The National ReferAll Database: An Open Dataset of Exercise Referral Schemes Across the UK.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Understanding Leisure Centre-Based Physical Activity after Physical Activity Referral: Evidence from Scheme Participants and Completers in Northumberland UK.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether adding web-based support (e-coachER) to an exercise referral scheme (ERS) increases objectively assessed physical activity (PA).
designMulticentre trial with participants randomised to usual ERS alone (control) or usual ERS plus e-coachER (intervention).
settingPrimary care and ERS in three UK sites from 2015 to 2018.
participants450 inactive ERS referees with chronic health conditions.
interventionsParticipants 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 measuresPrimary and key secondary outcomes were: objective moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) minutes (in ≥10 min 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.
resultsThere was no significant effect of the intervention on weekly MVPA at 12 months between the groups recorded in ≥10 min bouts (mean difference 11.8 min of MVPA, 95% CI: -2.1 to 26.0; p=0.10) or without bouts (mean difference 13.7 min 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.
conclusionAugmenting ERS referrals with web-based behavioural support had only a weak, non-significant effect on MVPA. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN15644451.
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