Physical Activity Intervention Among College Students

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

187 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-08-06

Study Completion Date

2016-12-31

Brief Summary

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This project was to examine the effects of incorporating modern wearable technology into the credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program for promoting habitual levels of physical activity among college students.

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Detailed Description

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This project was a cluster randomized trial examining the effects of utilizing a wearable activity tracker in a credit-based Physical Activity Instructional Program on promoting habitual levels of physical activity (PA) in college students.

The project was conducted in a large public university located in the mid-south region of the US. The university offers more than one hundred 1-credit hour PAIPs per academic semester. Considering the pilot nature of the study, the target PAIPs was limited to those meeting the following inclusion criteria: 1) PAIP with a size of 30 students that generally show an approximately equal gender distribution; and 2) PAIP that delivers the principles and practice of individually tailored habitual activity plans. The investigators randomly selected 14 eligible PAIPs and assigned them into intervention (k=7) and control (k=7) groups. The outcome measures of interests were the changes in objectively and subjectively measured physical activity over an academic semester.

Conditions

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Physical Activity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

All participants in both intervention and control arms were not disclosed to the specific purpose of the study in order to prevent the subject-expectancy effects on study outcomes.

Study Groups

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Activity tracker group

Participants in intervention arm were provided with a small and lightweight activity tracker, Misfit Flash (Misfit Wearables Co., Burlingame, CA), that can be worn with a clasp or watch band. A handout detailing the step-by-step instructions for utilizing the activity tracker with Misfit App on their smartphone was provided. There was no intervention component mandated in the curriculum of intervention PAIP courses; rather, participants were continuously encouraged by the instructors to track their activity levels and use all the features in Misfit App on a daily basis as they learned health benefits of PA and as to how to develop individualized, life-long PA plan during the course of semester.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Activity tracker

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Misfit Flash (Misfit Wearables Co., Burlingame, CA) activity tracker

Control group

Participants in control arm did not receive any additional instructions other than the scheduled class activities based on the standardized core-curriculum of PAIP

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Activity tracker

Misfit Flash (Misfit Wearables Co., Burlingame, CA) activity tracker

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* healthy college students who were enrolled in 1-credit physical activity instruction programs.

Exclusion Criteria

* did not wish to participate;
* have currently used their own wearable activity tracker;
* indicated any major physical, psychiatric, or cardiovascular-related problems diagnosed by a physician.

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes