App-technology to Improve Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Among Working Adults

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lifestyle; Quality of Life; Adults; mHealth; Mobile Applications

Treatments: Behavioral: App-technology to improve lifestyle behaviors; Behavioral: App-technology and active coaching to improve lifestyles behaviors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03579342

2018/411-31

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate if modern technology such as smartphone applications can be used to facilitate lifestyle changes and thereby improve health-related quality of life in gainfully employed persons in the general population in Stockholm, Sweden. The hypothesis is that at follow-up, the intervention group that use the new application will have improved health-related quality of life and other lifestyle habits including diet, physical activity and sleep, as well as biomarkers, compared to a control group.

Enrollment: 209 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Ability to communicate in Swedish
• Have access to and use a smartphone

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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209 participants in 3 patient groups

App technology and coaching

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group with app technology and coaching participate in a first meeting with the coach and will thereafter receive active support from the coach every 4 weeks for the duration of the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: App-technology and active coaching to improve lifestyles behaviors

App technology only

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group with only app technology participate in a first meeting with the coach but do not get any additional support during follow-up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: App-technology to improve lifestyle behaviors

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group participate in baseline assessments. The control group will get access to the app and will have a meeting with a coach after 12 weeks of follow-up.