Increasing Physical Activity Through a Motivational Online Intervention Using Pedometers in Sedentary Students

NCT02838550 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: H1466427733387
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 76
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of a motivational online intervention (MOI) using pedometers to increase physical activity in a sample of sedentary students. It will be compared three conditions: MOI+PEDOMETER condition (access to a MOI and the use of a pedometer of new generation); MOI condition (access to a MOI and the use of a blinded pedometer); and CONTROL condition (the use of a blinded pedometer).

Conditions

Sedentary

Keywords

Physical Activity; Motivational Online Intervention; Pedometers

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Daily Steps

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Enjoyment of Physical Activity. Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale - Short Version (sPACES, Kendzierski & DeCarlo, 1991; Spanish adaptation of Fernández, Sánchez, & Bañuelos, 2008).

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

• Stages of change to practice Physical Activity. Stages of change questionnaire for exercise (SCQ; Marcus, Rossi, Selby, Niaura, & Abrams, 1992).

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

• Decisional balance to practice Physical Activity. Decision Balance Questionnaire for exercise (DBQ; Marcus, Rakowski, & Rossi, 1992).

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

• Self-efficacy to practice Physical Activity. Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ; Marcus, Selby, Niaura, & Rossi, 1992).

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

• Processes of change for Physical Activity. Processes of Change Questionnaire (PCQ; Marcus, Rossi, Selby, Niaura, & Abrams, 1992).

  Change from Baseline to Post-intervention (at 3 weeks) and Follow-up (at 3 months).

Study Arms (3)

MOI and PEDOMETER

EXPERIMENTAL

Accessing to a motivational online intervention and wearing an unblinded pedometer (in order to receive feedback of the steps taken).

Behavioral: Motivational Online Intervention; Behavioral: Pedometer

MOI (without PEDOMETER)

EXPERIMENTAL

Accessing to a motivational online intervention and wearing a blinded pedometer (in order to not receive feedback of the steps taken).

Behavioral: Motivational Online Intervention

CONTROL

NO INTERVENTION

Wearing a blinded pedometer (in order to not receive feedback of the steps taken).

Interventions

Motivational Online Intervention BEHAVIORAL

The self-administered Motivational Online Intervention developed by the authors was based on the "Transtheoretical Model of Change". It attempts to facilitate the decisional balance, the increase of the self-efficacy, and the use of experiential and behavioral processes of change (e.g., consciousness raising, counterconditioning, reinforcement management, stimulus control). The main objective is to deliver information to increase the motivation to practice physical activity and to set individualized goals. It has a total length of 45 minutes, and it is delivered in a web platform at the beginning of the intervention.

MOI (without PEDOMETER); MOI and PEDOMETER

Pedometer BEHAVIORAL

Wearing a pedometer of new generation that provides motivational messages from time to time to motivate the user to increase the physical activity, as well as information in the screen regarding all-day activity: steps taken, calories burned, distance travelled, floors climbed and active minutes.

MOI and PEDOMETER

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 40 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• to practice less than 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity, three times a week;
• to be sedentary or low active (to walk less than 7500 daily steps during a week
• an age between 18 and 40 years old.

You may not qualify if:

• to be already using a pedometer;
• to suffer from a physical and/or a psychological disorder to prevent from practicing physical activity;
• to be already participating in other intervention to practice physical activity; and
• history of drug or alcohol addiction.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Valencia: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Rosa Baños, Full Prof.

  University of Valencia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Ausiàs Cebolla, PhD Ass.

  University of Valencia

  STUDY CHAIR

• Marta Miragall, PhD St.

  University of Valencia

  STUDY CHAIR

• Alejandro Domínguez, PhD St.

  University of Valencia

  STUDY CHAIR

• Jessica Navarro, PhD St.

  University of Valencia

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Full Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 13, 2016
• First Posted: July 20, 2016
• Study Start: January 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2016
• Study Completion: July 1, 2016
• Last Updated: July 20, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-07