Impact of wearable activity tracker usage on participant step counts in a large scale, mobile health (mHealth) intervention.

Impact of wearable activity tracker usage on participant step counts in a large scale, mobile health (mHealth) intervention in healthy Stepathlon participants.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12617001107314

Acronym

Not applicable

Enrollment

6105

Registered

2017-07-28

Start date

2016-06-01

Completion date

2016-10-15

Last updated

2017-08-21

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Wearable activity trackers are increasingly being utilised by consumers in daily life. It is unknown if use of these more sophisticated devices leads to improved physical activity outcomes. The aim of the current study is to evaluate physical activity outcomes in healthy adults undertaking a health and lifestyle challenge called the Stepathlon, which is a 100-day event undertaken by adult employees in workplaces around the world. In the current study, a propensity score weighted analysis approach will be used to compare physical activity outcomes in users of wearable trackers compared to participants in Stepathlon who do not use one of these trackers, and instead choose to use a pedometer, which is an older technology.

Interventions

The study intends to evaluate the impact of usage of advanced consumer activity trackers (e.g. Fitbit, Goqii, Garmin etc) on physical activity outcomes in participants in the Stepathlon, an international mobile health lifestyle workplace based lifestyle intervention conducted annually. The Stepathlon program involves recruitment of participants who are grouped into employer-based teams. Participants are provided with a pedometer, and are encouraged to measure the number of steps they take each day, with a goal of achieving 10,000 steps or more each day. The Stepathlon (https://www.stepathlon.com/) is conducted as a competition, with the objective of the event being to maximise step counts achieved by employer-based teams. The program utilises mobile/web-delivered self monitoring of step counts as a support tool. As part of the event, individual participants have the option of completing a standardized pre- and post-event survey web-based questionnaire. The survey items include step count, weight, days exercised, hours exercised, sitting hours, as well as a series of lifestyle questions. These data have been entered by the Stepathlon organizers into a registry. The project consists of an external analysis of these registry data. The duration of the Stepathlon program is 100 days. The study will be performed on pre- and post-event survey data.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Adult participants of Stepathlon, an international workplace-based mobile health lifestyle intervention/modification program.

Exclusion criteria

Stepathlon participants less than 18 years of age.

Outcome results