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The goal of this study (waitlist control study) is to evaluate the effectiveness of the ActiveWaiting App on increasing physical activity and improving quality of life in physically inactive adults in Austria.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Participants in the waitlist control group will have a control period (seven days) before using the app.
Researchers will compare the intervention group with the waitlist control group to see if the ActiveWating App has an effect
A randomized waitlist control design will be chosen to answer the research question. Participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention group or to the waitlist control group. Block randomization with permutated block sizes will ensure that both study arms are recruited evenly over time. Allocation to the groups will be concealed. The waitlist control group will have the opportunity to use the ActiveWaiting App after the control period. Intervention and control period will be 1 week. Demographic data will be collected before randomization.
Additionally to the primary research questions, the following research questions will be addressed for explorative purposes:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention group | Experimental | Participants in the intervention group use the ActiveWaiting App for one week. |
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| Waitlist control group | Other | Participants in the waitlist control group go through a one-week control period without any intervention first, before they are using the app for one week. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| ActiveWaiting App | Device | The final prototype aims at increasing physical activity during the day by providing exercises for waiting periods and other idle time periods. The user can choose from a pool of exercises from five different categories (11 exercises for endurance, 65 exercises for strength, 67 exercises for flexibility, 11 exercises for relaxation, or 5 exercises for balance). Additionally, within each category, the user can choose only "discrete" exercises which are not noticeable to an observer. If the user has used the app before, the last or previously saved settings can be chosen. Every input field has an information icon showing a short description of the input field. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Amount of physical activity in minutes per day | Participants are asked to report their physical activity twice a day (noon and evening). | up to 2 weeks |
| EQ VAS / EQ-5D-5L | The EQ VAS (EuroQol Visual Analog Scale) is the last item in the EQ-5D-5L (EuroQol - 5 Dimension - 5 Level) Questionnaire. It records the respondent's overall current health on a visual analogue scale. The endpoints are labelled as 'The best health you can imagine' (=100) and 'The worst health you can imagine' (=0). The EQ VAS provides a quantitative measure of the person's perception of their overall health and is used in this study. | up to 2 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| App usage - exercise session length | Exercise session length will be recorded in seconds and is defined by the time spent in each category (endurance, strength, balance, flexicility and relaxation) of provided exercises. | 7 days |
| App usage - total duration per session |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| FH Campus Wien | Vienna | Austria |
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| ID | Term |
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| D057185 | Sedentary Behavior |
| ID | Term |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
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Participants are assigned to the intervention group or the waitlist control group. The intervention group uses the ActiveWaiting App for a week, the waitlist control group starts with a control period (one week), before using the App for a week.
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Outcomes will be selected via lime survey. Allocation to the groups will be concealed.
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The duration of each session will be recorded in seconds, based on the time spent with exercises, regardless of the category. |
| 7 days |