NCT05149443

Move it, Move ID! Promotion of Physical Activity in Adolescents With Intellectual Disability

Move it, Move ID! A Co-created and Theory-based mHealth Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Adolescents With Intellectual Disability

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to develop and implement an mHealth intervention focusing on the promotion of physical activity in adolescents with intellectual disability.

Detailed description

Overweight and obesity are globally challenging health problems and major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Sufficient physical activity (PA) is an important protective factor in the development of overweight and obesity. Adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) report lower levels of PA and higher rates of overweight and obesity in comparison to adolescents without ID. There is a dire need to find ways to promote PA in adolescents with ID for their present and future health. However, while PA promotion in adolescents is a welldeveloped science, there is only a handful of studies dedicated to adolescents with ID. Consequently developing and designing PA promotion interventions specifically tailored to the needs of youth with ID is of the utmost importance. Currently, however, there is a real knowledge gap in terms of fundamental research on crucial intervention mechanisms to promote PA in adolescents with ID, as well as specific behaviour change theories adapted to this population. The aim of the current research project is to co-create and evaluate a theory-based mHealth intervention, which focuses on increasing PA for adolescents with ID. The underlying framework within the intervention development is the Behaviour Change Wheel, together with a co-creation approach which is a bottom-up approach in which the target group (adolescents with ID in this case) is actively involved in the development of the intervention. The result of this approach is contextually appropriate intervention and intervention strategies.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Health Promotion
• Adolescents
• Intellectual Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	theory-based mHealth-intervention (app)	Measuring the effect of the buddy and gamification components separately. During the A1 phase (baseline) and the A2 phase (reversal), participants will be asked not to use the 'Move it, Move ID' intervention: the app will be blocked. After an A phase, the app will be unblocked. During the B1 and B2 intervention phase, participants use the 'Move My it, Move ID' intervention only consisting of the buddycomponent. During the intervention period, adolescents and buddies are asked to wear an accelerometer. During the first AB pair we examine whether the buddy component has an effect on PA compared to no intervention. In the A2 reversal phase possible carryover effects can be measured. It will be informative to investigate whether some parts of the intervention are automatized or internalized and will still have some effect even when participants have no access to the intervention anymore (i.e. A2 phase). The study duration is 32 days; each phase will have a duration of minimum 5 days.
BEHAVIORAL	theory-based mHealth-intervention (app)	After the first study, other participants will be recruited. In a second study, the set-up remains the same, but the A1 and A2 phase this time consist of the buddy component (i.e. control phase) and in the B1 and B2 phase the gamification component will be added. This way, we can determine whether the gamification component has an effect on PA compared to the baseline buddy component intervention. The study duration is 32 days for all participants. The duration of the 4 different phases of the design will vary between participants, but each phase will have a duration of minimum 5 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-10-10
• Completion: 2023-10-10
• First posted: 2021-12-08
• Last updated: 2023-11-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium