Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Health Behavior; Physical Activity

• 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

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