The Smart-phone as a Physical Fitness Monitor - Validity, Sensitivity and Motivation InterWalk

Laura Staun Valentiner

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Other: Support group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02089477

InterWalk - Validation

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low physical fitness may cause several life style related diseases e.g. cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. It is important to develop reliable methods for measurement which can be used to follow the development of the physical shape both on an individual level and on at population level.

Associated with the development of new training method known as Interval Walking we developed an application for smartphones. The use of the application InterWalk was meant to increase physical activity in patients with type 2 diabetes. The application should both be able to, 1) be a personal trainer when doing interval walking, and 2) measure the individual physical fitness performed as a walking test. The latter function was developed to make the training more personal and individal adapted, so that the training was neither too hard or too easy.

It is necessary to test the walking test against a golden standard for measuring physical fitness and that the test in the application is able to measure and register changes in physical fitness.

Our hypothesis is that the individual test, in the InterWalk Application is reliable and able to register changes in physical fitness in patients with type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this project is investigate the reliability of a smartphone-based test of physical fitness, and to investigate whether the test is able to register changes in physical fitness during the project time (3 month). A secondary aim is to investigate whether individual support during the training period, affect the individual effort and time of interval walking per week.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 diabetes, age 30-80 y, BMI >18 but <40 kg/m2 and confirmed T2D diagnose

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy, smoking, contraindication to increased levels of physical activity, insulin dependence, evidence of thyroid, liver, lung, heart or kidney disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Support

Experimental group

Description:

The participants in the intervention group receives the intervention and support consisting of: 1. Individual Goal Setting: 2-3 functional goals related to everyday life evaluated every 4th week. 2. SMS send every Sunday with 5 possible responses. depending on the answer of the participant it will cause a telephone call from a project about motivation and barriers for interval walking.

Treatment:

Other: Support group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patient's in the control group receives the intervention with interval Walking and no other support.