NCT03135561

A Pedometer-based Intervention With and Without Email Counselling in General Practice

A Pedometer-based Walking Intervention With and Without Email Counselling in General Practice: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charles University, Czech Republic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial comparing pedometer-based intervention with and without email counselling in a primary care setting. Physically inactive patients from four general practices will be randomised to the pedometer-plus-email group or to the pedometer-alone group. All patients will be instructed to gradually increase the daily number of steps to at least 10,000. Patients in the pedometer-plus-email group will receive 8 counselling emails based on behavioural techniques. The primary outcome will be change in average daily steps measured during 7-day period at baseline and at 12 weeks.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Primary Care
• General Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	pedometer-plus-email	After randomisation, participants will receive a pedometer and will be instructed to wear the pedometer daily for the next four months, check the step count every evening and gradually increase their daily number of steps to at least 10,000. They will also be required to upload data to a website at least once a week. During the intervention period, patients will receive 8 counselling emails based on behavioural techniques.
BEHAVIORAL	pedometer-only	After randomisation, participants will receive a pedometer and will be instructed to wear the pedometer daily for the next four months, check the step count every evening and gradually increase their daily number of steps to at least 10,000. They will also be required to upload data to a website at least once a week. There will be no further interaction during the intervention period unless they fail to upload data, in which case they will be offered technical support.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-12
• Primary completion: 2016-09-29
• Completion: 2016-12-09
• First posted: 2017-05-01
• Last updated: 2017-05-01