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

The Role of Psychological Factors and the Acceptability of New Technology in Engaging Seniors in Physical Activity: A Pilot Study

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Motivation
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Follow up of physical activity

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1500

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Fréderic CHORIN, PhD; Phone Number: 0492034924; Email: chorin.f@chu-nice.fr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Olivier GUERIN, PU-PH; Phone Number: 0492034357; Email: guerin.o@chu-nice.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 55 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

all person using the application

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• signed non opposition
• > or = 55 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
• Collaborators: Laboratoire Motricité Humaine, Expertise, Sport, Santé (LAMHESS); Côte d'Azur Université
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Olivier GUERIN, PU-PH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): February 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): February 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Anticipated): February 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 9, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 15, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): December 19, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): January 24, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 23, 2023
• Last Verified: January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 20-PP-23

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

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