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Title: The Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI) study to promote physical activity through active transportation in healthy adults: A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Authors: Ek, A
Alexandrou, C
Delisle Nyström, C
Direito, A 
Eriksson, U
Hammar, U
Henriksson, P
Maddison, R
Trolle Lagerros, Y
Löf, M
Keywords: adult
aged
controlled study
cycling
epidemiology
exercise
female
health promotion
human
male
methodology
middle aged
mobile application
mobile phone
pilot study
procedures
quality of life
randomized controlled trial
smartphone
Sweden
traffic and transport
walking
young adult
Adult
Aged
Bicycling
Cell Phone
Exercise
Female
Health Promotion
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mobile Applications
Pilot Projects
Quality of Life
Research Design
Smartphone
Sweden
Transportation
Walking
Young Adult
Issue Date: 2018
Citation: Ek, A, Alexandrou, C, Delisle Nyström, C, Direito, A, Eriksson, U, Hammar, U, Henriksson, P, Maddison, R, Trolle Lagerros, Y, Löf, M (2018). The Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI) study to promote physical activity through active transportation in healthy adults: A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 18 (1) : 880. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5658-4
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Background: The global pandemic of physical inactivity represents a considerable public health challenge. Active transportation (i.e., walking or cycling for transport) can contribute to greater total physical activity levels. Mobile phone-based programs can promote behaviour change, but no study has evaluated whether such a program can promote active transportation in adults. This study protocol presents the design and methodology of The Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI), a randomised controlled trial to promote active transportation via a smartphone application (app) with the aim to increase physical activity. Methods/design: A two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial will be conducted in Stockholm County, Sweden. Two hundred fifty adults aged 20-65 years will be randomised to either monitoring of active transport via the TRavelVU app (control), or to a 3-month evidence-based behaviour change program to promote active transport and monitoring of active travel via the TRavelVU Plus app (intervention). The primary outcome is moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA in minutes/day) (ActiGraph wGT3x-BT) measured post intervention. Secondary outcomes include: time spent in active transportation measured via the TRavelVU app, perceptions about active transportation (the Transport and Physical Activity Questionnaire (TPAQ)) and health related quality of life (RAND-36). Assessments are conducted at baseline, after the completed intervention (after 3 months) and 6 months post randomisation. Discussion: SCAMPI will determine the effectiveness of a smartphone app to promote active transportation and physical activity in an adult population. If effective, the app has potential to be a low-cost intervention that can be delivered at scale. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03086837; 22 March, 2017. © 2018 The Author(s).
Source Title: BMC Public Health
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/181191
ISSN: 14712458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5658-4
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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