Incorporating Wearable Technology Into Physical Activity Instructional Program: A Cluster Randomized Trial in University Settings
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 187
- 主要终点
- Change from baseline in objectively measured physical activity to 15 weeks
研究概览
简要总结
This project was to examine the effects of incorporating modern wearable technology into the credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program for promoting habitual levels of physical activity among college students.
详细描述
This project was a cluster randomized trial examining the effects of utilizing a wearable activity tracker in a credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program on promoting habitual levels of physical activity (PA) in college students.
The project was conducted in a large public university located in the mid-south region of the US. The university offers more than one hundred 1-credit hour PAIPs per academic semester. Considering the pilot nature of the study, the target PAIPs was limited to those meeting the following inclusion criteria: 1) PAIP with a size of 30 students that generally show an approximately equal gender distribution; and 2) PAIP that delivers the principles and practice of individually tailored habitual activity plans. The investigators randomly selected 14 eligible PAIPs and assigned them into intervention (k=7) and control (k=7) groups. The outcome measures of interests were the changes in objectively and subjectively measured physical activity over an academic semester.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
All participants in both intervention and control arms were not disclosed to the specific purpose of the study in order to prevent the subject-expectancy effects on study outcomes.
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •healthy college students who were enrolled in 1-credit physical activity instruction programs.
排除标准
- •did not wish to participate;
- •have currently used their own wearable activity tracker;
- •indicated any major physical, psychiatric, or cardiovascular-related problems diagnosed by a physician.
研究组 & 干预措施
Activity tracker group
Participants in intervention arm were provided with a small and lightweight activity tracker, Misfit Flash (Misfit Wearables Co., Burlingame, CA), that can be worn with a clasp or watch band. A handout detailing the step-by-step instructions for utilizing the activity tracker with Misfit App on their smartphone was provided. There was no intervention component mandated in the curriculum of intervention PAIP courses; rather, participants were continuously encouraged by the instructors to track their activity levels and use all the features in Misfit App on a daily basis as they learned health benefits of PA and as to how to develop individualized, life-long PA plan during the course of semester.
干预措施: Activity tracker (Behavioral)
Control group
Participants in control arm did not receive any additional instructions other than the scheduled class activities based on the standardized core-curriculum of PAIP
结局指标
主要结局
Change from baseline in objectively measured physical activity to 15 weeks
时间窗: baseline and 15 weeks
Physical activity was objectively measured using an ActiGraph Actitrainer (ActiGraph LLC, Pensacola, FL, USA) accelerometer.
次要结局
- Change from baseline in subjectively measured physical activity(baseline and 15 weeks)
研究者
Youngdeok Kim
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University