Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

NCT03279497 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: MoveF2017
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 180
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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.

Conditions

Physical Activity; Health Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Physical activity behavior

  Physical activity behavior is tracked with Actigraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer during one week period

  at baseline during one week period and at 4 weeks during one week period

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Change in Physical activity self-efficacy

  At baseline and at 4 weeks

• Actual use of the intervention

  During the four week intervention

• Usability of the intervention

  At 4 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Health game

EXPERIMENTAL

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.

Behavioral: Health game

Sport and fitness application

SHAM COMPARATOR

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.

Behavioral: Sport and fitness application

Interventions

Health game BEHAVIORAL

Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group get to use the health game during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.

Health game

Sport and fitness application BEHAVIORAL

Participants allocated to the Sport and fitness application intervention group get to use the sport and fitness application during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.

Sport and fitness application

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 10 Years - 13 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• Physical activity impairments

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Turku: lead

Study Sites (1)

Primary schools (n=2)

Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity; Health Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Anni Pakarinen, MHSc

  University of Turku

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Anni Pakarinen, MHSc

CONTACT

+358451213567; anni.pakarinen@utu.fi

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 5, 2017
• First Posted: September 12, 2017
• Study Start: October 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2018
• Study Completion: January 1, 2018
• Last Updated: October 26, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-10

Locations

FI (1)