NCT03579342

App-technology to Improve Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Among Working Adults

Using App-technology and a Personalized Health Plan to Improve Lifestyle Habits Among Working Adults - a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 209 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate if modern technology such as smartphone applications can be used to facilitate lifestyle changes and thereby improve health-related quality of life in gainfully employed persons in the general population in Stockholm, Sweden. The hypothesis is that at follow-up, the intervention group that use the new application will have improved health-related quality of life and other lifestyle habits including diet, physical activity and sleep, as well as biomarkers, compared to a control group.

Conditions

• Lifestyle
• Quality of Life
• mHealth
• Mobile Applications
• Adults

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	App-technology and active coaching to improve lifestyles behaviors	Access to the smartphone-app during 12 weeks. A personal health goal related to for example diet, physical activity or stress habits, is set together with a heath coach. Participants receive continuous coaching every 4 weeks during follow-up.
BEHAVIORAL	App-technology to improve lifestyle behaviors	Access to the smartphone-app during 12 weeks. A personal health goal related to for example diet, physical activity or stress habits, is set together with a heath coach. Participants receive continuous coaching every 4 weeks during follow-up.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-16
• Primary completion: 2019-05-15
• Completion: 2019-05-15
• First posted: 2018-07-06
• Last updated: 2019-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden