E-health Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Inactive Adults (ONWARDS)

University Hospital of North Norway

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity Promotion Among Inactive Adults

Treatments: Device: Fitness tracker; Other: Peer support via social media; Other: Online training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04526444

66573

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project addresses physical inactivity as a global health issue. Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality. Moreover, inactive adults have a higher risk to develop lifestyle diseases. To date, there is preliminary evidence of the efficacy in the use of certain strategies including fitness technologies and digital interventions for physical activity (PA) promotion. Intervention studies are needed to test the effectiveness of PA promotion strategies.

A Hybrid Type I effectiveness-implementation randomised controlled trial (RCT) will investigate the effects of 1) fitness trackers, 2) home-based online training, and 3) peer support via social media among inactive adults. The design will allow testing the study outcomes while gathering information on implementation in a real-world situation. The study will produce evidence on whether these interventions increase the levels of PA among inactive adults and improve health outcomes. Increased PA will also result in better primary prevention of lifestyle diseases.

Enrollment: 183 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• young (18-40 years) or middle aged (40-55 years) healthy adults, both men and women;
• inactive (undertaking less than 150 min of moderate-intensity PA per week) in the last 3 months;
• living in the Troms and Finnmark county;
• current owner of a smartphone;
• able to understand training instructions in English language.

Exclusion criteria

• presence of disabilities which might reduce the ability to perform exercise;
• presence of conditions which might prevent from safely exercise;
• lack of Internet connection at home;
• lack of space to exercise safely at home (recommended 4 sqm).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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183 participants in 3 patient groups

Ftiness tracker

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the group A will be provided the fitness tracker Mi Smart Band 5 with the computational algorithm PAI.

Treatment:

Device: Fitness tracker

Home training platform and fitness tracker

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in group B will be provided with both the fitness tracker Mi Smart Band 5 with the computational algorithm PAI and access to Les Mills On Demand to perform training classes from home.

Treatment:

Device: Fitness tracker

Other: Online training

Peer support, home training platform and fitness tracker and

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in group C will be offered the fitness tracker Mi Smart Band 5 with the computational algorithm PAI, Les Mills On Demand and additional peer support via social media.

Treatment:

Other: Peer support via social media

Device: Fitness tracker

Other: Online training