Can Brief Text Messages Promote Cycling?

NCT03732573 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: University of Sheffield
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Cycling behaviour is not widely adopted despite the known benefits for individuals (e.g. health), communities (e.g. less traffic), and environment (e.g. less pollution). Promoting cycling has been studied with infrastructural changes such as building new paths, segregating cycling and vehicle traffic, placing more traffic signs, etc. Few studies using psychological aspects to promote physical activity indicate that goal setting, goal operating, and self-monitoring techniques to be the most effective ones. Current study aims to convey these techniques via short text messages in order to promote bike share schemes.

Conditions

Sedentary Lifestyle

Keywords

Physical Activity; Cycling; Behaviour Change Techniques

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in total number of times bike share schemes used before and after the intervention

  Participants will be asked to count number of times they used bike share schemes, which are recorded by phone apps automatically. This will be asked at baseline and follow up questionnaires one month apart.

  One month

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Use of bike schemes in the past seven days

  One week

• Change in total number of times participants used their own bike in the past month

  One month

• Use of one's own bike in the past seven days

  One week

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group

EXPERIMENTAL

This group will receive 9 text messages over 3 weeks. Messages will be based on goal-setting in the first week, goal-operating in the second week, and self-monitoring in the third week.

Behavioral: Text messages

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in this group will receive no messages during the intervention period.

Interventions

Text messages BEHAVIORAL

Text messages conveying 3 specific behaviour change techniques

Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Adults who live in a city with a bike share
• Owns a smart phone

You may not qualify if:

• Individuals who cannot ride a bicycle

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Sheffield: lead

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

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: Principle Investigator

Model Details: After completing an online questionnaire, participants will be randomized to intervention or control condition. Participants in the intervention condition will receive text messages designed to promote goal setting in the first week, text messages designed to promote goal operating in the second week, and message designed to promote self-monitoring messages in the third week. All text messages will seek to encourage usage of shared bike schemes (e.g. "How many times can you use a shared bike scheme over the next week? Set yourself a goal and challenge yourself!"). Control group participants will receive no messages during the course of the study.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 2, 2018
• First Posted: November 6, 2018
• Study Start: November 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2019
• Study Completion: June 1, 2019
• Last Updated: November 7, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-11