Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early adolescents (10-13 year olds). Half of the study participants will receive the game-intervention and half of the study participants will receive a commercially available sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Physical Activity; Health Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Health game; Behavioral: Sport and fitness application

Detailed Description

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early 10 to 13 years old adolescents. Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group will use a game called Movenator, during a four week intervention and participants allocated to the Sport and fitness-intervention group will use a commercially available Sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training, during a four week intervention period.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 180
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Finland
  • Southwest Finland
    • Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
      • Recruiting
      • Primary schools (n=2)
      • Contact: Anni Pakarinen; Phone Number: +358451213567; Email: anni.pakarinen@utu.fi

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 10 years to 13 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th or 6th grade
• Understands and can communicate either in Finnish
• Has daily access to a smart phone (Android) during free time

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical activity impairments

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Health game; Health game intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the mobile health game at school and 4 weeks free usage of the game via own smart phone during free time. Smart phones are tracking the actual physical activity (steps) of the participants via activity sensors and the tracked steps work as In-App Currency enabling the participants to play the game and proceed in it.	Behavioral: Health game; Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group get to use the health game during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.
Sham Comparator: Sport and fitness application; Sport and fitness application intervention consists of 20 minutes guided training session with the app at school and 4 weeks free usage of the app via own smart phone during free time. Sport and fitness application, when turned on, tracks the physical activity (running, cycling and every-day training) of the participant.	Behavioral: Sport and fitness application; Participants allocated to the Sport and fitness application intervention group get to use the sport and fitness application during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Physical activity behavior	Physical activity behavior is tracked with Actigraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer during one week period	at baseline during one week period and at 4 weeks during one week period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Physical activity self-efficacy	Measured with Physical Activity Self-Efficacy Scale (PASES), a 8-item 5-point Likert-scale.	At baseline and at 4 weeks
Actual use of the intervention	Actual use of the intervention is tracked with log files	During the four week intervention
Usability of the intervention	Measured with System Usability Scale (SUS), a 10-item 5-point Likert-scale	At 4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Turku
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Anni Pakarinen, MHSc, University of Turku

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): October 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 5, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 12, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 26, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 24, 2017
• Last Verified: October 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: MoveF2017

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No