The Impact of Real-time Feedback on Physical Activity Patterns in Flemish Employees

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Device: SenseWear display; Device: SenseWear Armband; Behavioral: Personal Coaching; Device: Pedometer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01432327

KULEUVEN_RTFDB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to assess an increase of daily physical activity from electronic self-monitoring, to compare these values to the 10.000 step program, and to compare with real-time feedback with and without guidance from a Personal Coach.

Full description

The purpose of this intervention study is to determine the effectiveness of continuous self-monitoring and real-time feedback from the SenseWear Armband (BodyMedia) alone and in combination with Personal Coaching to enhance physical activity and influence consciousness about its own physical activity patterns over a 12-month period in sedentary Flemish employees. The investigators hypothesize that the use of the feedback will increase awareness and subsequent physical activity levels of inactive office workers. Another hypothesizes is that the weekly meeting with a Personal Coach will add a controlling element and therefore employees of the 'coaching group' will have a higher physical activity level at the end of the intervention period compared to the other groups.

Enrollment: 227 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 68 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employee
• Physical Activity Level < 1.71 MET
• Willing to wear the SenseWear Armband for 5-6 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Student
• Senior

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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227 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This group receives no kind of feedback during the intervention period. The participants wear the SenseWear Armband for 4 weeks and results of the intervention are discussed after the 4 week intervention period.

Treatment:

Device: SenseWear Armband

Step Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group receives feedback about the daily amount of steps by means of a pedometer.

Treatment:

Device: Pedometer

Display Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive real time feedback on their energy expenditure, minutes of physical activity and step count by means of the SenseWear Display

Treatment:

Device: SenseWear display

Coaching Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive real-time feedback on their energy expenditure, step count and minutes of physical activity by means of the SenseWear Display and weekly meet with a Personal Coach to discuss their progress

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personal Coaching