Effectiveness of the Walking Intervention Walkadoo: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial in an Employee Population

February 3, 2016 updated by: MeYou Health, LLC
This study evaluates the product Walkadoo to determine whether it effectively increases walking behavior in healthy adults.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

265

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02210
        • MeYou Health

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adults 18 years or older;
  • Healthways employees based in Franklin, TN with an email account with the company;
  • Provide informed consent and complete eligibility questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current or prior use of the intervention Walkadoo
  • Presence of a chronic condition that affects walking
  • Projected inability to access the internet for 4 consecutive days or longer during the study
  • Non-adherence to device wear during baseline

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Observation only, no behavioral intervention
Experimental: Intervention
Intervention Walkadoo.
Behavioral: Walkadoo
Walkadoo is a MeYou Health, LLC product.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Average steps per day
Time Frame: 6 weeks
6 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

MeYou Health, LLC

Investigators

  • Study Director: Nathan K Cobb, MD, Georgetown University

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2014

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 28, 2014

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 29, 2014

First Posted (Estimate)

September 1, 2014

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 4, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 3, 2016

Last Verified

February 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • WD-PILOT-2014

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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