NCT06423014

Smart mHealth Strategy for Physical Activity and Health Promotion

Smart mHealth Strategy in the Delivery of Behavior Change Techniques for Physical Activity and Health Promotion

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 360 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop a Smart mHealth Strategy that delivers behavior change techniques through wearable physical activity trackers and social media chatbots, including self-monitoring, real-time feedback and reminders, goal-setting, competition and rewards, social support, and health coaching. This study also aims to explore the effect of the Smart mHealth Strategy on the behavioral outcomes and psychological factors of physical activity, and physical and mental health. The study design is a three-stage randomized controlled trial. In each stage, 120 are recruited and randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Participants are adults with insufficient physical activity and a sedentary lifestyle. The Smart mHealth Strategy uses smartwatches and self-developed chatbots. The constrained dialogue content is designed to finally deliver the six behavior change techniques. Data are collected in the pre-, mid-, and post-tests. The measurement includes self-administered questionnaires, Actigraphy GT9X, Inbody 270S, OMRON HEM-7130, and heart rate variability monitors.

Conditions

• Health Behavior Change
• Wearable Technology
• Chatbot
• Social Media
• Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices only	self-monitoring
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with the 1st behavior change technique	reminder
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with the 2nd behavior change technique	social support
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with the 3rd behavior change technique	Competition
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with the 4th behavior change technique	Goal-setting
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with the 5th behavior change technique	health coach
BEHAVIORAL	Wearable devices with all behavior change techniques	Self-monitoring, health coach, goal-setting, competition, social support, and reminder

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-01
• Primary completion: 2026-07-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2024-05-21
• Last updated: 2024-05-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan