NCT03032731

Trial of a New Online Programme for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.

Trial of a Self-directed Behaviour Change Intervention for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Bath · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 74 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Many healthy lifestyle interventions have been developed to help people change their activity and diet, lose weight and thus reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disorders (CVD). However, these interventions often fail to engage their target audience, which undermines their effectiveness in changing behaviour and health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a self-directed, website-based intervention to promote physical activity and healthy dietary behaviours. The intervention frames health information from a novel perspective, which our previous work has indicated can help to promote interest in the health information and improve attitudes, self-efficacy and motivation towards physical activity and healthy dietary behaviours. The intervention comprises a website of information resources and personal recording areas to set goals and monitor activity and diet, weekly emails and pedometers. In this trial we aim to see whether the intervention has any impact on people's physical activity and diet, as well as their risk of developing CVD and T2DM. The intervention will be compared with a control condition in which participants will be shown standard resources available on NHS websites. Overweight/obese (BMI 25 - 39.5) males and females aged 35-74 years will be recruited from the community. The active intervention will last 6 weeks (during this period participants will receive weekly emails from the research team) and there will be a 6-week follow-up phase (in which participants will still have access to the website but contact from the research team). Activity, diet, disease risk markers and psychological antecedents of behaviour will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention (6-weeks) and post follow-up (12- weeks).

Conditions

• Overweight/Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Website and pedometer intervention	Self-directed, website-based intervention delivered with a pedometer to promote understanding of health and health behaviour change.
OTHER	Control	Standard, publicly available NHS resources for healthy lifestyles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-16
• Primary completion: 2017-09-12
• Completion: 2017-09-12
• First posted: 2017-01-26
• Last updated: 2019-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom