Home-Based Exercise Gaming for Physically Inactive Individuals

NCT04633590 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HomeExergame
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 27
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Current guidelines recommend that adults undertake at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. However, many adults fail to be physically active according to this definition of the World Health Organisation (WHO). This represents a large economic burden to healthcare systems and public health. A number of behavioural and environmental factors associated with modern lifestyles are largely responsible for the high levels of physical inactivity including; motorised transport and sedentary jobs, lack of time, limited access to adequate exercise facilities, lack of motivation, financial constraints and environmental factors including bad weather. In an attempt to overcome many of the common barriers to exercise, members of our research group developed a virtually-monitored exercise intervention that used simple on-the-spot bodyweight exercises to be performed in the participant's home without supervision or equipment. This home-based intervention was designed to be a practical and effective training strategy capable of producing metabolic and functional adaptions while removing many of the common barriers to exercise. Despite promising results, more engaging exercise strategies are needed to motivate sedentary individuals to increase their physical activity. Inspired by current trends in the fitness market, Sphery Ltd. developed an immersive and motivating fitness exercise game (exergame), the "ExerCube". The ExerCube allows a full-body workout that concurrently challenges physical and cognitive functions and adapts to the fitness and skill level of the individual. The development of a home-based version of the ExerCube has the potential to make this system available to more individuals, reduce major barriers to exercise, and ultimately provide a strategy to improve cardio-metabolic health in the population. Innovative home-based exergames are particularly in demand given the increase in the number of people wanting to exercise at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conditions

Physical Inactivity

Keywords

Home-based exercise gaming; Cardiovascular health; Neurocognitive health; Physical Inactivity; Exergame

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• VO2max

  Change in maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max)

  Pre to post 6 weeks of home-based exergame training

Secondary Outcomes (25)

• Wmax

  Pre to post 6 weeks of home-based exergame training

• Adherence

  6 weeks of home-based exergame training

• Adherence

  6 weeks of training

• Drop-out rate

  6 weeks training

• Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) score

  Pre to post 6 weeks of home-based exergame training

Study Arms (1)

home-based exergaming

EXPERIMENTAL

The home-based exergame intervention will take place in an unsupervised place of the participant's choosing. Participants will be provided with all of the equipment (including a television if required) and receive instructions on how to use the system. Participants will be provided with a stepped training plan with exergame session durations of 19 minutes (4x 3-minutes 45-seconds of exercise interspersed with 1 minute of rest) in weeks 1 and 2; 24-minutes (4x 5-minutes of exercise interspersed with 1 minute of rest) in week 3 and 4; and 30-minutes (5x 5-minutes of exercise interspersed with 1 minute of rest) in week 5 and 6. Sessions will be set at a vigorous intensity (≥80% heart rate maximum) and participants will be provided with individualised heart rate zones to achieve in line with heart rate maximum determined during a maximal exercise test in Visit 2. Participants will be asked to train 3 times per week.

Behavioral: Home-based exergaming

Interventions

Home-based exergaming BEHAVIORAL

Participants will undertake one of two 6-week training interventions. In both groups participants will be asked to train 3 times per week (18 sessions total), during which adherence to the training will be measured. To monitor adherence to training and training load (exercise completion, exercise duration and heart rate achieved during workouts) throughout the 6 weeks participants will be given a heart rate monitor.

home-based exergaming

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 55 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Male or female
• Aged 18-55
• Physically inactive, defined as not meeting the exercise guidelines of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week
• BMI 18.5 kg/m2 - 30 kg/m2
• No known cardiovascular disorders
• Able to provide written informed consent and understand instructions

You may not qualify if:

• Overt diabetes mellitus (type 1, type 2, other forms of diabetes)
• Pregnant, planning on becoming pregnant during the study, or breast feeding
• Physical or psychological disease likely to interfere with the normal conduct of the study as judged by the investigator

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern: lead
• University of Bern: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Bern, 3010, Switzerland

Location

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Christoph Stettler, MD

  University of Bern

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: A single-centre, single-armed, open label pilot study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 10, 2020
• First Posted: November 18, 2020
• Study Start: March 23, 2022
• Primary Completion: January 23, 2023
• Study Completion: January 23, 2023
• Last Updated: March 14, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

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