Evaluation of the "ActiveWaiting App" Encouraging Active Exercise-related Use of Waiting Time

NCT ID: NCT06321926

Last Updated: 2024-06-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 33 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-06-24

Brief Summary

The goal of this study (waitlist control study) is to evaluate the effectiveness of the ActiveWaiting App on increasing physical activity and improving quality of life in physically inactive adults in Austria.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does the provision of the ActiveWaiting App lead to increased physical activity behaviour, compared to a no-intervention control group?

2. Does the provision of the ActiveWaiting App lead to increased health-related quality of life, compared to a no-intervention control group? Participants will use the ActiveWaiting App over a period of seven days. During this period, they will answer daily questionnaires (3 - 6 questions) in order to gather their actual physical activity behaviour. Before and after the intervention period additional questionnaires on health-related quality of life will be sent to the participants.

Participants in the waitlist control group will have a control period (seven days) before using the app.

Researchers will compare the intervention group with the waitlist control group to see if the ActiveWating App has an effect

• on physical activity behaviour and
• on quality of life.

Detailed Description

A randomized waitlist control design will be chosen to answer the research question. Participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention group or to the waitlist control group. Block randomization with permutated block sizes will ensure that both study arms are recruited evenly over time. Allocation to the groups will be concealed. The waitlist control group will have the opportunity to use the ActiveWaiting App after the control period. Intervention and control period will be 1 week. Demographic data will be collected before randomization.

Additionally to the primary research questions, the following research questions will be addressed for explorative purposes:

• How much is the ActiveWaiting App used for active waiting and breaking time?
• Which category of exercises are used for this purpose?

Conditions

Physical Inactivity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Participants in the intervention group use the ActiveWaiting App for one week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

ActiveWaiting App

Intervention Type: DEVICE

The final prototype aims at increasing physical activity during the day by providing exercises for waiting periods and other idle time periods. The user can choose from a pool of exercises from five different categories (11 exercises for endurance, 65 exercises for strength, 67 exercises for flexibility, 11 exercises for relaxation, or 5 exercises for balance). Additionally, within each category, the user can choose only "discrete" exercises which are not noticeable to an observer. If the user has used the app before, the last or previously saved settings can be chosen. Every input field has an information icon showing a short description of the input field.

Waitlist control group

Participants in the waitlist control group go through a one-week control period without any intervention first, before they are using the app for one week.

Group Type: OTHER

ActiveWaiting App

Intervention Type: DEVICE

The final prototype aims at increasing physical activity during the day by providing exercises for waiting periods and other idle time periods. The user can choose from a pool of exercises from five different categories (11 exercises for endurance, 65 exercises for strength, 67 exercises for flexibility, 11 exercises for relaxation, or 5 exercises for balance). Additionally, within each category, the user can choose only "discrete" exercises which are not noticeable to an observer. If the user has used the app before, the last or previously saved settings can be chosen. Every input field has an information icon showing a short description of the input field.

Interventions

ActiveWaiting App

The final prototype aims at increasing physical activity during the day by providing exercises for waiting periods and other idle time periods. The user can choose from a pool of exercises from five different categories (11 exercises for endurance, 65 exercises for strength, 67 exercises for flexibility, 11 exercises for relaxation, or 5 exercises for balance). Additionally, within each category, the user can choose only "discrete" exercises which are not noticeable to an observer. If the user has used the app before, the last or previously saved settings can be chosen. Every input field has an information icon showing a short description of the input field.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• a sedentary lifestyle (expressed in a full to part-time sedentary job)
• using a smart phone seven days a week
• ability to operate an app on the smart phone
• age between 18 and 65 years

Exclusion Criteria

• prior usage of the ActiveWaiting App
• achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for physical activity (assessed via Rapid Assessment of physical Activity RAPA)

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

FH Campus Wien

Vienna, , Austria

Countries

Austria

Other Identifiers

154/2023

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id