Using Mobile Technology to Promote Physical Activity

Dr Falk Mueller-Riemenschneider

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physical Activity

Treatments: Other: online map; Device: Wearable activity tracking devices (fitbit); Behavioral: General physical activity educational materials; Other: Personalized text messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02265432

R -608-000-071-112

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test an intervention which uses a personalized mobile-technology based approach that aims to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in inactive working Singaporean adults.

Full description

Considering the increasing burden in type 2 diabetes mellitus and other chronic diseases, the promotion of physical activity and reduction of sedentary behavior have an important role to improve population health.

Primarily, potential participants will be identified and recruited among participants from the Singapore Health Study (SHS) 2014 based on pre-specified selection criteria . SHS is a cross-sectional study of adults between 18 and 79 years which is conducted annually to monitor health, health behavior and health determinants among the Singapore general population.

All eligible participants will be randomized with a 1:1 ratio to intervention and control group.

Intervention group participants will receive a personalized mobile-technology based intervention to promote physical activity. It consists of four components:

1. General physical activity educational materials
2. Wearable activity tracking devices to enable the intervention participants to self-monitor their physical activity behavior and receive real-time feedback
3. Access to an online map of Singapore providing location based information about leisure time physical activity opportunities
4. Personalized text messages which include, educational information, tailored theory-based motivational messages, as well as compliance enhancing reminders

Control group participants will receive general physical activity educational materials, identical in content to that of the general educational materials of intervention group participants.

All participants will be assessed at baseline, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention by accelerometry and self-reported questionnaires.

Enrollment: 74 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women 25 to 65 years of age
• Physically inactive
• Working full-time for at least one more year after inclusion
• Signed written informed consent for the intervention study
• Willing to wear the activity tracker, fitbit all the time every day for 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• severe medical conditions prohibiting participation in physical activity
• pregnant women
• insufficient English language skills
• Participants who have already activity tracker device

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile technology intervention

Experimental group

Description:

1. General physical activity educational materials 2. Wearable activity tracking devices to enable the intervention participants to self-monitor their physical activity behavior and receive real-time feedback 3. Access to an online map of Singapore providing location based information about leisure time physical activity opportunities 4. Personalized text messages which include, educational information, tailored theory-based motivational messages, as well as compliance enhancing reminders

Treatment:

Other: online map

Other: Personalized text messages

Behavioral: General physical activity educational materials

Device: Wearable activity tracking devices (fitbit)

Control

Other group

Description:

1.General physical activity educational materials

Treatment:

Behavioral: General physical activity educational materials