🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2025-01-23
Pain & Aging: Combined Interventions for Fitness in the Community Study (NCT04099394)
🔵 Active, Not Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic 🧠 Behavioral & Psychological Program Sponsor: University of Washington
🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)
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).
Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (7 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (14 items).
Location: University of Washington — Seattle, Washington
📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener
Instant ChecklistCheck every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).
Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:
- 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
🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.
📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)
- University of Washington — Seattle, Washington
💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights
- 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
- Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
- Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.