NCT03032731

Trial of a New Online Programme for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.

Completed NA Last updated 19 March 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Website and pedometer intervention in Overweight/Obesity in 59 participants. Completed in 12 September 2017.

Timeline

16 January 2017

Primary endpoint
12 September 2017

12 September 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Bath
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	59
Start date	16 January 2017
Primary completion	12 September 2017
Estimated completion	12 September 2017
Sites	1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• Website and pedometer intervention
• Control

Conditions studied

• Overweight/Obesity — all drugs for Overweight/Obesity →

Sponsor

University of Bath

Who can join

Adults 35 to 74, any sex, with Overweight/Obesity. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Many healthy lifestyle interventions have been developed to help people change their activity and diet, lose weight and thus reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disorders (CVD). However, these interventions often fail to engage their target audience, which undermines their effectiveness in changing behaviour and health outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a self-directed, website-based intervention to promote physical activity and healthy dietary behaviours. The intervention frames health information from a novel perspective, which our previous work has indicated can help to promote interest in the health information and improve attitudes, self-efficacy and motivation towards physical activity and healthy dietary behaviours.

The intervention comprises a website of information resources and personal recording areas to set goals and monitor activity and diet, weekly emails and pedometers. In this trial we aim to see whether the intervention has any impact on people's physical activity and diet, as well as their risk of developing CVD and T2DM. The intervention will be compared with a control condition in which participants will be shown standard resources available on NHS websites. Overweight/obese (BMI 25 - 39.5) males and females aged 35-74 years will be recruited from the community. The active intervention will last 6 weeks (during this period participants will receive weekly emails from the research team) and there will be a 6-week follow-up phase (in which participants will still have access to the website but contact from the research team). Activity, diet, disease risk markers and psychological antecedents of behaviour will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention (6-weeks) and post follow-up (12- weeks).

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of a Web-Based, Evolutionary Mismatch-Framed Intervention Targeting Physical Activity and Diet: a Randomised Controlled Trial.
   Grey EB, Thompson D, Gillison FB. · · 2019 · cited 12× · PMID 31654276 · DOI 10.1007/s12529-019-09821-3