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Our goal is to develop personalized decision rules for selecting the frequency, timing, and content of messages to promote physical activity. The objective of this project is to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of two strategies for calibrating decision rules used to send those messages. Participants will wear an activity monitor for the collection of PA data and be randomly assigned to one of two adaptive intervention strategies. The decision rule for each participant will be refined on a monthly basis throughout the 6-month study based upon the accumulating data on how each participant is responding to different messages under different conditions. Our hypothesis is that more intensive intervention strategies will offer a better user experience because the resulting treatments will be experienced as more personalized.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Aggressive adaptation strategy | Experimental | Participants receive up to 6 messages/day to support achievement of their behavior change goal. Messages are only delivered outside of a participant-specific Do Not Disturb window (e.g., 11pm-8am). Messages with coordinating images are selected from three content domains: Move More, Sit Less, and Inspirational Quotes Unrelated to Movement within the first month. The decision rule for each participant will be refined on a monthly basis throughout the 6-month study based upon the accumulating data on how each participant is responding to different messages under different conditions. |
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| Moderate adaptation strategy | Experimental | Participants receive up to 3 messages/day to support achievement of their behavior change goal. Messages are only delivered outside of a participant-specific Do Not Disturb window (e.g., 11pm-8am). Messages with coordinating images are selected randomly from three content domains: Move More, Sit Less, and Inspirational Quotes Unrelated to Movement within the first month. The decision rule for each participant will be refined on a monthly basis throughout the 6-month study based upon the accumulating data on how each participant is responding to different messages under different conditions. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Digital message (text + image) | Behavioral | Messages can be up to 256 characters of text with an image. "Move more" and "sit less" messages were written to target established cognitive and affective constructs associated with physical activity (e.g., prompts to action plan, guidance for maximizing pleasure by regulating intensity). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Acceptability of messaging at 6 months | Self-reported preference for more, no change or fewer messages/day based on participant exit interviews coded by two blinded research assistants | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in total physical activity volume from run-in period | Actigraph-assessed total activity counts during a 1-week monitoring period at baseline versus end of study | Baseline and 6 months |
| Change in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity duration from run-in period (baseline) to 6 months(baseline) to 6 months |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| David E Conroy, PhD | The Pennsylvania State University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park | Pennsylvania | 16802 | United States |
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Actigraph-assessed min/week of moderate (or higher) physical activity duration during a 1 week monitoring period at baseline versus end of study |
| Baseline and 6 months |