Role of Psychological Factors and Acceptability of New Technology in Engaging Seniors in Physical Activity

Motivation Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Role of Psychological Factors and the Acceptability of New Technology in Engaging Seniors in Physical Activity: A Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04675554
• Other study ID #: 20-PP-23
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: February 2023
• Est. completion date: February 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
• Contact: Frederic CHORIN, PhD
• Phone: 0492034924
• Email: chorin.f[@]chu-nice.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will be a non-interventional study intended to identify psychological antecedents of the acceptability of WeWard application among people aged 55 years and older, , and its impacts on engagement in physical activity. Participants will be included in the study on a voluntary basis and healthy volunteers will be registered on the national volunteer database. This study will include people aged over 55 from senior citizens associations, from patients coming for frailty consultations at the Cimiez University Hospital Centre, and from any senior living in France. Regarding the recruitment, application users will receive a request to participate in a scientific study. If the request is accepted, participants will fill in the non-opposition form via the application and will complete, with their smartphone, a series of psychometric questionnaires (e.g. level of physical activity, personality, motivation, perceived physical competence, new technologies acceptability, etc.). Participants will then use the mobile application for a period of 12 weeks during which time, physical activity data provided from participants smartphone will be gathered such as the number of steps or gait speed. Psychometric questionnaires comprising each time one item (i.e. ecological momentary assessment) will be administered to participants randomly, in order to assess their evolution. After the 12 weeks of using the mobile application, older people will answer to the same series of psychometric questionnaires administered at the beginning of the study. Finally,lparticipants who will drop out the trial during this study will be contacted in order to clarify the reasons for their withdrawal.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 1500
• Est. completion date: February 2025
• Est. primary completion date: February 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 55 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• signed non opposition

• > or = 55 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Motivation

Intervention

Other:
• Follow up of physical activity
participants will fill in the non-opposition form via the application and will complete, with their smartphone, a series of psychometric questionnaires. Participants will then use the mobile application for a period of 12 weeks during which time, physical activity data provided from participants smartphone will be gathered After 12 weeks, participants will complete again the same series of psychometric questionnaires.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice	Côte d'Azur Université, Laboratoire Motricite´ Humaine, Expertise, Sport, Sante´ (LAMHESS)

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	number of steps from a mobile application :	number of steps	during 12 weeks
Primary	walking speed from a mobile application	walking speed	during 12 weeks
Primary	walking distance from a mobile application	walking distance	during 12 weeks
Primary	change of level from a mobile application	change of level	during 12 weeks
Primary	Big Five Inventory	Big Five Inventory: score 1 to 5 when agree, item score is 5 when disagree, item score is 1	before and after 12 weeks of using the application.
Primary	Perceived physical self worth	Perceived physical self worth: one item score : very bad to very good	before and after 12 weeks of using the application.