Smart mHealth Strategy for Physical Activity and Health Promotion

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

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Taipei Medical University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-05-01

Primary Completion

2026-07-31

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• Taiwan

Study Locations