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Exploring the Effect of an Intervention on Women's Physical Activity Behaviour

NCT03601663 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 49

Last updated 2020-03-24

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Summary

Physical activity has been shown to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and promote physical and mental health and wellbeing, yet few women are active enough to see these benefits. Wearable activity trackers show promise for helping people increase their physical activity levels by supporting self-monitoring. However, few researchers have examined how providing people with these devices impacts physical activity levels, or motivation for physical activity which is a significant and robust predictor of physical activity. Based on previous research, it is possible that women's physical activity levels would be more likely to increase if they received an autonomy-supportive intervention to enhance motivation in addition to a wearable activity tracker. A pilot, three-armed randomized controlled trial was developed to test this hypothesis and to assess if changes in perceived autonomy-support, basic psychological need satisfaction/thwarting, motivational regulations, wellbeing indicators are associated with changes in physical activity over time.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical Activity Information

Participants will receive a copy of the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical Activity Monitoring

Participants will receive a wearable activity tracker (Polar A300).

BEHAVIORAL

Autonomy-support

Participants will receive eight autonomy-supportive weekly emails containing information and activities to help them set goals and make changes to become physically active.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Ottawa

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-01
Primary Completion
2019-04-22
Completion
2019-08-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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