Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Health Behavior; Physical Activity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Health game; Behavioral: Sport and fitness application

• Registration Number: NCT03279497
• Lead Sponsor: University of Turku

Brief Summary

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early adolescents (10-13 year olds). Half of the study participants will receive the game-intervention and half of the study participants will receive a commercially available sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training.

Detailed Description

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early 10 to 13 years old adolescents. Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group will use a game called Movenator, during a four week intervention and participants allocated to the Sport and fitness-intervention group will use a commercially available Sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training, during a four week intervention period.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-09-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-08
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-12
• Status Verified: 2017-10
• Study Start: 2017-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-10-24
• Last Update Posted: 2017-10-26
• Primary Completion: 2018-01
• Study Completion: 2018-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th or 6th grade
• Understands and can communicate either in Finnish
• Has daily access to a smart phone (Android) during free time

Exclusion Criteria

• Physical activity impairments

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health game	Health game	Health game intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the mobile health game at school and 4 weeks free usage of the game via own smart phone during free time. Smart phones are tracking the actual physical activity (steps) of the participants via activity sensors and the tracked steps work as In-App Currency enabling the participants to play the game and proceed in it.
Sport and fitness application	Sport and fitness application	Sport and fitness application intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the app at school and 4 weeks free usage of the app via own smart phone during free time. Sport and fitness application, when turned on, tracks the physical activity (running, cycling and every-day training) of the participant.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Physical activity behavior	at baseline during one week period and at 4 weeks during one week period	Physical activity behavior is tracked with Actigraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer during one week period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Physical activity self-efficacy	At baseline and at 4 weeks	Measured with Physical Activity Self-Efficacy Scale (PASES), a 8-item 5-point Likert-scale.
Actual use of the intervention	During the four week intervention	Actual use of the intervention is tracked with log files
Usability of the intervention	At 4 weeks	Measured with System Usability Scale (SUS), a 10-item 5-point Likert-scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Primary schools (n=2); 🇫🇮 Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland