The Researchers Would Like to Conduct a Trial Using Gamified Exercise to Increase Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Intention to Quit Smoking Among Hardcore Smokers Who Are Also Physically Inactive.

Gadjah Mada University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Smoking Cessation; Cardiorespiratory Fitness or Endurance

Treatments: Behavioral: Gamification of a structured exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07390695

KE/FK/1453/EC/2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this quasi-experiment is to learn if a gamified exercise works to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in physically inactive hardcore smokers. It will also learn about the effects of smoking cessation. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does a gamification of a structured training program improve the cardiorespiratory fitness and smoking cessation behavior among smokers?
• Is there any mediating effect from the level of physical activity between a gamified exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness?
• Will the smokers engage in the gamified exercise within the 12-week intervention?

This is a no-control group. The quasi-experiment will be conducted within one group (paired data).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 17 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hardcore smokers (min 20 cigarettes per day)
• being active smokers at least 1 year
• physically active (MET less than 600 MET minutes per week)

Exclusion criteria

• having any medical conditions that limit them to participation in a program training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Gamification Team

Experimental group

Description:

A group of 60 physically inactive hardcore smokers participated in this study using a gamified exercise within 12 12-week intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Gamification of a structured exercise program