Using Team Science to Promote Health-Enhancing Physical Activity in Adults With Obesity in a Community Setting: A Feasibility Study
Using Team Science to Promote Health-Enhancing Physical Activity in Adults With Obesity in a Community Setting: A Feasibility Study
Background: Fun For Wellness is an online intervention designed to promote growth in well-being and physical activity by providing confidence-enhancing learning opportunities to participants.
Objective: The objective of this feasibility study is to address uncertainties regarding the inclusion of accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity within the Fun For Wellness online intervention among free-living adults with obesity in the United States of America.
Method: The study design is a prospective, double-blind, parallel group randomized pilot trial.
Discussion: Results are intended to inform the preparation of a future definitive randomized controlled trial.
Fun For Wellness is an online intervention designed to promote growth in well-being and physical activity by providing confidence-enhancing learning opportunities to participants [1]. The conceptual framework for the Fun For Wellness intervention is guided by self-efficacy theory [2]. Evidence has been provided for the efficacy of Fun For Wellness to promote self-reported physical well-being actions in free-living adults who comply with the intervention [3]. The objective of this feasibility study is to address uncertainties regarding the inclusion of accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity within the Fun For Wellness online intervention among free-living adults with obesity in the United States of America.
Four specific aims will be investigated. Aim 1. To determine if accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity can be used within the Fun For Wellness intervention.
Aim 2. To determine if accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity should be used within the Fun For Wellness intervention.
Aim 3. To determine how to implement accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity within the Fun For Wellness intervention.
Aim 4. To provide a preliminary effect size estimate for each direct effect in the conceptual model for the Fun For Wellness online intervention.
Pursuit of these four specific aims is based on a general conceptual framework for feasibility and pilot studies in preparation for a future definitive randomized controlled trial [4-6]. Within this conceptual framework, a randomized pilot trial is a type of a feasibility study and a feasibility study may include a focus on the acceptability of an intervention [4-6].
Inclusion Criteria:
Individual is at least 18 years old but not older than 64 years old. Individual has a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25.00 kg/m2. Individual has access to a technological device (e.g., computer) that can access the online intervention.
Individual is not simultaneously enrolled in another program promoting either well-being or physical activity.
Individual is willing to comply with instructions for physical activity monitoring.
Exclusion Criteria:
Individual is less than 18 years old or older than 64 years old. Individual has a body mass index (BMI) < 25.00. Individual does not have access to a technological device (e.g., computer) that can access the online intervention.
Individual is simultaneously enrolled in another program promoting either well-being or physical activity.
Individual is unwilling to comply with instructions for physical activity monitoring.