NCT03061357

Physical Activity Intervention Among College Students

Incorporating Wearable Technology Into Physical Activity Instructional Program: A Cluster Randomized Trial in University Settings

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 187 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Tech University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project was to examine the effects of incorporating modern wearable technology into the credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program for promoting habitual levels of physical activity among college students.

Detailed description

This project was a cluster randomized trial examining the effects of utilizing a wearable activity tracker in a credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program on promoting habitual levels of physical activity (PA) in college students. The project was conducted in a large public university located in the mid-south region of the US. The university offers more than one hundred 1-credit hour PAIPs per academic semester. Considering the pilot nature of the study, the target PAIPs was limited to those meeting the following inclusion criteria: 1) PAIP with a size of 30 students that generally show an approximately equal gender distribution; and 2) PAIP that delivers the principles and practice of individually tailored habitual activity plans. The investigators randomly selected 14 eligible PAIPs and assigned them into intervention (k=7) and control (k=7) groups. The outcome measures of interests were the changes in objectively and subjectively measured physical activity over an academic semester.

Conditions

• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Activity tracker	Misfit Flash (Misfit Wearables Co., Burlingame, CA) activity tracker

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-06
• Primary completion: 2016-07-31
• Completion: 2016-12-31
• First posted: 2017-02-23
• Last updated: 2017-02-23