# Mindful Movement for Physical Activity and Wellbeing in Older Adults: A Community Based Randomized Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study

> **NIH NIH R33** · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2020 · $147,725

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
This application is submitted in response to NOT-AT-20-004 as a supplement to Mindful Movement
for Physical Activity and Wellbeing in Older Adults: A Community Based Randomized Hybrid
Effectiveness-Implementation Study (4R33AT009110). The proposed Administrative Supplement
will focus on improving intervention training for YMCA facilitators to enhance fidelity of the
experimental mindfulness-based intervention (MBI), and active comparison which have transitioned to
remote delivery (due to COVID-19). Importantly, the supplemental aims do not affect the original
scope of the awarded parent project.
The long-term objective of the parent study is to optimize physical activity levels in middle to older
age adults (>50 years) through mindfulness. The parent R33 has the following aims:
Aim 1: To determine the relative effectiveness of 8 weeks of Mindful Movement versus Keys to
Health & Wellbeing in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT, n=182) as measured by changes in the
primary physical activity outcome of time spent per week in ≥10 minute bouts of moderate-vigorous
physical activity (MVPA) at 9 weeks.
Aim 2: To determine the relative effectiveness of the two interventions as measured by changes in a)
secondary physical activity outcomes and b) secondary self-report measures at 9, 26, and 52 weeks.
Aim 3: To facilitate interpretation of RCT results and provide resources for translation and
sustainability by collecting contextual information to inform eventual broad scale intervention
implementation and creating a web-based implementation toolkit that can be used by other sites.
Supplemental Aims
 A. To enhance facilitator adherence in delivering required intervention elements with skills that
 foster supportive alliances which promote participant engagement.
B. To assess and monitor the additional facilitators adherence and skills required for remote
 delivery, by adapting the parent project’s facilitator fidelity monitoring system to document them.
C. To assess and monitor participants’ receipt and application of the interventions by modifying the
 parent project’s participant fidelity monitoring system to include new data collection of
 participant views of remote delivery and qualitative questions regarding barriers and facilitators
 to engagement.
D. To examine i) participants’ views of the supportive alliance and their impact on
 primary/secondary outcomes and ii) whether participants’ perception of the alliance matches the
 facilitators’ perception and the resulting impact on primary/secondary outcomes.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10175708
- **Project number:** 3R33AT009110-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
- **Principal Investigator:** RONI L. EVANS
- **Activity code:** R33 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $147,725
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-03-01 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10175708

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10175708, Mindful Movement for Physical Activity and Wellbeing in Older Adults: A Community Based Randomized Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study (3R33AT009110-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10175708. Licensed CC0.

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