NCT06423040

Social Media Chatbot on Physical Activity Education for Older Adults

Exploring the Effectiveness of Applying Social Media Chatbot for Providing Real-Time Feedback on Physical Activity Education for Older Adults

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, a social media chatbot was used to provide a continuous and real-time multimedia health education program on physical activity for the older adults, as well as supportive messages and feedbacks, to improve physical activity and exercise self-efficacy among the older adults. This study was a cluster randomized trial, and participants were recruited from community care stations and activity centers in Taipei City. The experimental group was involved in an 8-week, 5-day-a-week intervention with a total of 40 multimedia physical activity education programs, and users were provided with real-time feedback interactions and regular physical activity education guidelines, and self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection. The research instruments include basic personal information, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale, Behavioral regulation in exercise questionnaire-2, Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale, and the statistical methods will be descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test, and one-way analysis of covariance.

Conditions

• Exercise
• Self Efficacy
• Behavioral Regulation
• Healthy Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Social Media Chatbot on Physical Activity Education	a social media chatbot was used to provide a continuous and real-time multimedia health education program on physical activity for the older adults, as well as supportive messages and feedbacks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-30
• Primary completion: 2025-07-01
• Completion: 2025-07-01
• First posted: 2024-05-21
• Last updated: 2025-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan