A pilot-RCT of an app-based intervention to reduce the cardiovascular disease risk in shift-workers through targeting multiple lifestyle behaviours.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 未知
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 40
研究概览
简要总结
Poor health behaviors are prevalent in shift-workers but few multiple health-behavior interventions consider their unique needs. The study aimed to evaluate if an existing app-based intervention to improve physical activity, diet and sleep quality was feasible and acceptable in shift-workers, as well as estimate the effect of the intervention in a 4-week pilot trial. Shift-workers aged 18-65-years were randomly allocated to intervention (n=20) or wait-list (n=20) groups. Outcomes included: recruitment, engagement with the app, participant retention, usefulness ratings of the interventipn and the user-friendliness of the app, qualitative interviews with participants to gain feedback on what they liked and did not like, and estimation of treatment effect (minutes of physical activity, diet quality and sleep quality). Recruitment took one week. Just over half (55%) still used the app at week four and most participants (85%) completed the 4-week follow-up questionnaire while the minority (20%) completed the qualitative interview. The intervention was rated as slightly-to-moderately useful by most participants (77%) and the app was rated as moderately user friendly with an average of 62.7 out of 100 points on the system usability scale. Diet quality significantly improved for the intervention vs. the wait-list group, but not physical activity or sleep quality. Qualitative interviews found a more personalised intervention, more accessible information, and interactive features were
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomised controlled trial
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Open (masking not used)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 55 Years（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Shift worker
- •-And one or more of these criteria:
- •Rate sleep as bad or fairly bad, OR
- •Diet quality screening questionnaire score of <=6 , OR
- •Insufficiently active: activity time <150 min
排除标准
- •Excluded if not reporting at least one of the following behaviours
- •1. Rate sleep as bad or fairly bad,
- •2. Diet quality screening questionnaire score of <=6 ,
- •3. Insufficiently active: activity time <150 min.
- •Other exclusion criteria are:
- •-Not residing in Australia
- •-Not having access to an internet- enabled iOS (Apple) or Android smartphone or tablet
- •-Not being between 18 and 65 years old;
- •-Reporting a height and weight that is not consistent with a BMI between 18.5 and 40;
- •-Currently pregnant or having given birth in the past 12 months;
- •-Having a condition that would make it unsafe or limits their ability to increase activity levels, change their diet or change sleep behaviours;
- •-Currently consuming hypnotics (sleep inducing medication);