NCT03279497

Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Turku · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

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.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2017-09-12
• Last updated: 2017-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland