The Effectiveness of an E-Intervention on Health Behavior Promotion in Chinese University Students

NCT03627949 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: FRG2/15-16/032
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 621
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Through the internet and mobile phone SMS technology, and by using the Health Action Process Approach model as a theoretical backdrop, this 8-week theory-based intervention study aimed at developing a healthy lifestyle by supporting physical activity (PA) and a healthy dietary for Chinese university students. The investigators would examine whether the two intervention groups improve the participants' motivation for PA and healthy diets in comparison to the control group; whether, with the help of an intervention program, students are able to increase the PA levels and healthy diet consumption, and whether there are different effects between the two intervention programs.

Conditions

Health Behavior; Physical Activity; Healthy Diet

Keywords

Web-based intervention; Health behavior change; University students; Health Action Process Approach Model

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change of weekly amount of physical activity (PA)

  The level of PA will be measured through the short Chinese version of the IPAQ questionnaire (Macfarlane et al., 2007). Participants will be asked to estimate the number of days and hours spent for vigorous, moderate and walking activities during the past week.

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

• Change of daily portions of fruit-vegetable intake (FVI)

  The daily portions of FVI will be measured with four items, including fruit or vegetable juice, fruit, cooked or steamed vegetables, and raw vegetables (Rafferty et al., 2002). Respondents will be asked to count the number of portions of fruit and vegetables they consumed on average during a typical day.

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• Change of stage algorithm of behaviors change

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

• Change of outcome expectancies of PA and FVI

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

• Change of self-efficacy of PA and FVI

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

• Change of risk perception of PA and FVI

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

• Change of intention of PA and FVI

  From baseline to 9 weeks (at the end of intervention) and 1-month follow-up

Other Outcomes (1)

• Demographic information

  At baseline

Study Arms (3)

Intervention group 1

EXPERIMENTAL

Students in the intervention group 1 received first 4-week treatment on physical activity followed by 4-week treatment on healthy dietary behaviour.

Behavioral: E-intervention

Intervention group 2

EXPERIMENTAL

Students in the intervention group 2 received first 4-week treatment on healthy dietary behaviour followed by 4-week treatment on physical activity.

Behavioral: E-intervention

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Students in the control group were not provided with any supportive treatments on physical activity or healthy dietary behaviour.

Interventions

E-intervention BEHAVIORAL

The intervention will address the basic elements of the HAPA model via the use of behaviour change techniques. In line with Abraham and Michie (2008), we use several behaviour change techniques like providing information about behavioural risk and benefit of behaviour change, prompting intention formation, prompting barrier identification, providing instructions how to perform a behaviour, prompting specific goal setting and review of behavioural goals, providing feedback on performance, prompting practice and providing follow-up prompts, prompting to plan social support and finally prompting relapse prevention, also based on strategies used by other effective computer tailoring programs. Students attended e-health intervention session once a week with about 20 minutes each time.

Intervention group 1; Intervention group 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• not professional athletes; not vegetarians
• no contraindication with respect to the physical activity or fruit and vegetable consumption.
• access to the Internet and a mobile phone.

You may not qualify if:

• have the restriction of physical mobility
• have fruit-vegetable related diseases such as diabetes or fruit allergies.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hong Kong Baptist University: lead

Related Publications (3)

• Liang W, Duan Y, Wang Y, Lippke S, Shang B, Lin Z, Wulff H, Baker JS. Psychosocial Mediators of Web-Based Interventions for Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle Among Chinese College Students: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Sep 7;24(9):e37563. doi: 10.2196/37563.

  PMID: 36069840 DERIVED

• Duan Y, Liang W, Wang Y, Lippke S, Lin Z, Shang B, Baker JS. The Effectiveness of Sequentially Delivered Web-Based Interventions on Promoting Physical Activity and Fruit-Vegetable Consumption Among Chinese College Students: Mixed Methods Study. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jan 26;24(1):e30566. doi: 10.2196/30566.

  PMID: 35080497 DERIVED

• Liang W, Duan YP, Shang BR, Wang YP, Hu C, Lippke S. A web-based lifestyle intervention program for Chinese college students: study protocol and baseline characteristics of a randomized placebo-controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2019 Aug 13;19(1):1097. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7438-1.

  PMID: 31409381 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Health Behavior; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Yanping Duan

  Hong Kong Baptist University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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: Assistant Professor, Dr. Duan

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 1, 2018
• First Posted: August 14, 2018
• Study Start: June 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2017
• Study Completion: February 28, 2018
• Last Updated: April 18, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share