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Smart mHealth Strategy for Physical Activity and Health Promotion

No phase Interventional Health Behavior Change Wearable Technology Chatbot Social Media

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Wearable devices only, Wearable devices with the 1st behavior change technique, Wearable devices with the 2nd behavior change technique, Wearable devices with the 3rd behavior change technique.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Health Behavior Change, Wearable Technology, Chatbot, Social Media. Basic parameters: 18 years — 70 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
Taiwan
Next step
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Official title

Smart mHealth Strategy in the Delivery of Behavior Change Techniques for Physical Activity and Health Promotion

Overview

The purpose of this study is to develop a Smart mHealth Strategy that delivers behavior change techniques through wearable physical activity trackers and social media chatbots, including self-monitoring, real-time feedback and reminders, goal-setting, competition and rewards, social support, and health coaching. This study also aims to explore the effect of the Smart mHealth Strategy on the behavioral outcomes and psychological factors of physical activity, and physical and mental health. The study design is a three-stage randomized controlled trial. In each stage, 120 are recruited and randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Participants are adults with insufficient physical activity and a sedentary lifestyle. The Smart mHealth Strategy uses smartwatches and self-developed chatbots. The constrained dialogue content is designed to finally deliver the six behavior change techniques. Data are collected in the pre-, mid-, and post-tests. The measurement includes self-administered questionnaires, Actigraphy GT9X, Inbody 270S, OMRON HEM-7130, and heart rate variability monitors.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Wearable devices only
    self-monitoring
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with the 1st behavior change technique
    reminder
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with the 2nd behavior change technique
    social support
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with the 3rd behavior change technique
    Competition
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with the 4th behavior change technique
    Goal-setting
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with the 5th behavior change technique
    health coach
  • Behavioral Wearable devices with all behavior change techniques
    Self-monitoring, health coach, goal-setting, competition, social support, and reminder

Primary outcome measures

  • Subjective physical activity [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Objective physical activity [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale-Concise (EBBS-C) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Exercise self-efficacy scale (EXSE) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Physical Activity Self-Regulation Scale (PASR) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
  • body composition (Inbody) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • blood pressure [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • heart rate variability [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]
  • World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF) [Time frame: up to 12 weeks]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

Adults who is the age of majority, with insufficient physical activity, and a sedentary lifestyle who have smartphones

Exclusion criteria

  • Individuals' health conditions may affect physical activity in daily living and the experiment, such as disability, serious health problems
  • There are unconventional life plans during the experiment, such as going abroad for vacation, pregnancy, and surgery.
  • Individuals have using experiences in any wearable physical activity trackers in the past six months ④ People who have ever had severe allergies to any wearable device ⑤ Professional athletes or student-athletes

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single blind
Primary purpose
Prevention

Study locations

Taiwan · 1 center
  • Taipei Medical University — Taipei

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06423014 · N202303041

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗