ASUKI Step Pedometer Worksite Intervention (ASUKI-Step)

Arizona State University (ASU)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Physical Activity

Treatments: Behavioral: ASUKI Step Worksite Pedometer Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01537939

ASUKI2009

Details and patient eligibility

About

ASUKI Step is designed to increase the number of days employees walk 10,000 steps and to reduce the number of days employees spend being inactive.

Study aims were:

1. to have a minimum of 400 employee participants from each university site reach a level of 10, 000 steps per day on at least 100 days (3.5 months) during the trial period;
2. to have 70% of the employee participants from each university site maintain two or fewer inactive days per week, defined as a level of less than 3,000 steps per day;
3. to describe the socio-demographic, psychosocial, environmental and health-related determinants of success in the intervention; and
4. to evaluate the effects of a pedometer-based walking intervention in a university setting on changes in self-perceived health and stress level, sleep patterns, anthropometric measures and fitness.

Full description

ASUKI Step is a 9-month pedometer-based worksite intervention conducted at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden and Arizona State University (ASU) in the greater Phoenix area, Arizona. ASUKI Step used a quasi-experimental design based on the theory of social support. Participants included 2,118 faculty, staff, and graduate students from ASU (n = 712) and KI (n = 1,406) who participated in teams of 3-4 persons. The intervention required participants to accumulate 10,000 steps each day for six months, with a 3-month follow-up period. Steps were recorded onto a study-specific website. Participants completed a website-delivered questionnaire four times to identify socio-demographic, health, psychosocial and environmental correlates of study participation. One person from each team at each university location was randomly selected to complete physical fitness testing to determine their anthropometric and cardiovascular health and to wear an accelerometer for one week. Incentives were given for compliance to the study protocol that included weekly raffles for participation prizes and a grand finale trip to Arizona or Sweden for teams with most days over 10,000 steps.

Enrollment: 2,018 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employed at Arizona State University (ASU)or the Karolinska Institute (KI)
• The ability to read, speak and understand English (ASU only)
• Not currently pregnant or lactating
• Free of physical problems that affect the ability to walk, and e) ages 18 and older

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to walk
• Not employed or a graduate student at ASU or the KI

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,018 participants in 1 patient group

Walking

Other group

Description:

Quasi-experimental design with one-group, post-test only

Treatment:

Behavioral: ASUKI Step Worksite Pedometer Intervention