NCT03601663

Exploring the Effect of an Intervention on Women's Physical Activity Behaviour

Exploring the Effect of an eHealth Intervention on Women's Physical Activity Behaviour

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 49 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Ottawa · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Physical activity has been shown to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and promote physical and mental health and wellbeing, yet few women are active enough to see these benefits. Wearable activity trackers show promise for helping people increase their physical activity levels by supporting self-monitoring. However, few researchers have examined how providing people with these devices impacts physical activity levels, or motivation for physical activity which is a significant and robust predictor of physical activity. Based on previous research, it is possible that women's physical activity levels would be more likely to increase if they received an autonomy-supportive intervention to enhance motivation in addition to a wearable activity tracker. A pilot, three-armed randomized controlled trial was developed to test this hypothesis and to assess if changes in perceived autonomy-support, basic psychological need satisfaction/thwarting, motivational regulations, wellbeing indicators are associated with changes in physical activity over time.

Conditions

• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Activity Information	Participants will receive a copy of the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines.
BEHAVIORAL	Physical Activity Monitoring	Participants will receive a wearable activity tracker (Polar A300).
BEHAVIORAL	Autonomy-support	Participants will receive eight autonomy-supportive weekly emails containing information and activities to help them set goals and make changes to become physically active.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-22
• Completion: 2019-08-30
• First posted: 2018-07-26
• Last updated: 2020-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada