Using Data-driven Insights From Wearable Technologies to Inform Whole School Physical Activity Interventions.

NCT07050797 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: EP 22 018
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 549
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This is a whole-school study using co-design to inform tailored school-based interventions. Schools will be allocated either to a control or intervention group and KS2 pupils will be asked to wear a wrist-worn physical activity monitor for a total of 5-weeks. During this time the PI will be present in schools to collect notes regarding school practices and daily variation. In the control groups pupils will wear monitors for 5-weeks (blinded to data) and school practice will continue as normal; school staff will be asked not to make any changes within school. After these 5-weeks, schools' will receive a detailed report about pupils' physical activity, and a researcher will come in to discuss findings. In the intervention groups pupils will wear monitors for 2-weeks (blinded to data). After this time the PI will present staff with pupils' physical activity during a focus group in the form of user-friendly graphs and a summary report. Staff will be asked to reflect on school practices and co-design feasible and practical strategies to improve pupils' physical activity. These strategies will then be implemented over the following 3-weeks, with immediate physical activity feedback on the accompanying software application, which will be installed on school computers, and support from the PI. At the end of the 5th week, during another focus group, schools will be given a summary of the data and changes in pupils' physical activity. This is where staff can reflect on the project and highlight challenges or barriers, and strategies they believed to be successful. The researcher will not prescribe any changes, this will be at the initiation of the school and staff members.

Conditions

Physical Inactivity

Keywords

Mixed-methods; Whole-school; Wearable Technology; Co-design

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Physical Activity Changes-1

  Daily step counts

  change between baseline (assessed for 3-weeks) and during intervention period (assessed for 3-weeks) within each school

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Qualitive Data

  following baseline and intervention measures (~1-2hr focus group workshop)

• Physical Activity Changes-2

  changes from baseline (assessed for 3-weeks) and during intervention period (assessed for 3-weeks) within each school

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The first two-weeks within each school children's baseline physical activity data will be collected. Children and school staff will be blinded to the data, receiving no feedback. Teachers will be instructed not to change normal school practices or encourage children's physical activity. In control groups pupils will continue to wear the monitors for another 3-weeks, with children and school staff continuing to be blinded to the data.

Whole-School Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

After the 2-week baseline, schools will be assigned to either control or intervention groups. For schools in the intervention group pupils' baseline physical activity data will be shared with staff during focus groups and strategies which aim to improve pupils' physical activity will be co-designed with the PI. These individualised whole-school strategies will then be implemented over the subsequent 3-weeks. During this time staff will be able to access pupils' physical activity data through the accompanying software application, which will be installed on school computers, with the ability to continue refining strategies.

Behavioral: Individualised whole-school intervention, developed using data sharing and co-design.

Interventions

Individualised whole-school intervention, developed using data sharing and co-design. BEHAVIORAL

Individualised whole-school intervention, developed using data sharing and co-design.

Whole-School Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 11 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Any KS2 pupil from the UK schools recruited.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Bath: lead
• Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom: collaborator
• University of Bristol: collaborator
• Loughborough University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Bath

Bath, Somerset, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sedentary Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Doctoral Researcher

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 7, 2022
• First Posted: July 3, 2025
• Study Start: October 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2024
• Study Completion: March 1, 2024
• Last Updated: July 3, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF

Locations

GB (1)