Role of Psychological Factors and Acceptability of New Technology in Engaging Seniors in Physical Activity

NCT04675554 | Withdrawn

• 1 other identifier: 20-PP-23
• Study Type: observational
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will be a non-interventional study intended to identify psychological antecedents of the acceptability of WeWard application among people aged 55 years and older, , and its impacts on engagement in physical activity. Participants will be included in the study on a voluntary basis and healthy volunteers will be registered on the national volunteer database. This study will include people aged over 55 from senior citizens associations, from patients coming for frailty consultations at the Cimiez University Hospital Centre, and from any senior living in France. Regarding the recruitment, application users will receive a request to participate in a scientific study. If the request is accepted, participants will fill in the non-opposition form via the application and will complete, with their smartphone, a series of psychometric questionnaires (e.g. level of physical activity, personality, motivation, perceived physical competence, new technologies acceptability, etc.). Participants will then use the mobile application for a period of 12 weeks during which time, physical activity data provided from participants smartphone will be gathered such as the number of steps or gait speed. Psychometric questionnaires comprising each time one item (i.e. ecological momentary assessment) will be administered to participants randomly, in order to assess their evolution. After the 12 weeks of using the mobile application, older people will answer to the same series of psychometric questionnaires administered at the beginning of the study. Finally,lparticipants who will drop out the trial during this study will be contacted in order to clarify the reasons for their withdrawal.

Conditions

Motivation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• number of steps from a mobile application :

  number of steps

  during 12 weeks

• walking speed from a mobile application

  walking speed

  during 12 weeks

• walking distance from a mobile application

  walking distance

  during 12 weeks

• change of level from a mobile application

  change of level

  during 12 weeks

• Big Five Inventory

  Big Five Inventory: score 1 to 5 when agree, item score is 5 when disagree, item score is 1

  before and after 12 weeks of using the application.

• Perceived physical self worth

  Perceived physical self worth: one item score : very bad to very good

  before and after 12 weeks of using the application.

Interventions

Follow up of physical activity OTHER

participants will fill in the non-opposition form via the application and will complete, with their smartphone, a series of psychometric questionnaires. Participants will then use the mobile application for a period of 12 weeks during which time, physical activity data provided from participants smartphone will be gathered After 12 weeks, participants will complete again the same series of psychometric questionnaires.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 55 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

all person using the application

You may qualify if:

• signed non opposition
• \> or = 55 years old

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice: lead
• Laboratoire Motricité Humaine, Expertise, Sport, Santé (LAMHESS): collaborator
• Côte d'Azur Université: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

CHU de Nice, gériatrie

Nice, 06001, France

Location

Study Officials

• Olivier GUERIN, PU-PH

  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 9, 2020
• First Posted: December 19, 2020
• Study Start: January 12, 2021
• Primary Completion: January 12, 2021
• Study Completion: January 12, 2021
• Last Updated: June 16, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Locations

FR (1)