Clinical trial NCT05149443: Move it, Move ID! Promotion of Physical Activity in Adolescents With Intellectual Disability
Official title: Move it, Move ID! A Co-created and Theory-based mHealth Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Adolescents With Intellectual Disability
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Health Promotion
Adolescents
Intellectual Disability
Lead sponsor: University Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Research Foundation Flanders
First posted: 2021-12-08
Enrollment: 25
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: The effectiveness of the 'Move it, Move ID'-intervention and its two different components (i.e. buddy and gamification) will be measured through an aggregated single case design, i.e. the ABAB reversal design. Rather than taking few measurements from a sample of many individuals, many measurements are taken repeatedly from the same individual(s) in ABAB reversal designs. Participants are serving as their own controls, leading to the fact that overall sample sizes are smaller than traditional RCTs without losing adequate power.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to develop and implement an mHealth intervention focusing on the promotion of physical activity in adolescents with intellectual disability.

Detailed description: Overweight and obesity are globally challenging health problems and major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Sufficient physical activity (PA) is an important protective factor in the development of overweight and obesity. Adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) report lower levels of PA and higher rates of overweight and obesity in comparison to adolescents without ID. There is a dire need to find ways to promote PA in adolescents with ID for their present and future health. However, while PA promotion in adolescents is a welldeveloped science, there is only a handful of studies dedicated to adolescents with ID. Consequently developing and designing PA promotion interventions specifically tailored to the needs of youth with ID is of the utmost importance. Currently, however, there is a real knowledge gap in terms of fundamental research on crucial intervention mechanisms to promote PA in adolescents with ID, as well as specific behaviour change theories adapted to this population. The aim of the current research project is to co-create and evaluate a theory-based mHealth intervention, which focuses on increasing PA for adolescents with ID.

The underlying framework within the intervention development is the Behaviour Change Wheel, together with a co-creation approach which is a bottom-up approach in which the target group (adolescents with ID in this case) is actively involved in the development of the intervention. The result of this approach is contextually appropriate intervention and intervention strategies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents with mild ID
* Dutch speaking
* Having a smartphone or tablet (or being able to use a test smartphone from the research group)
* Having enough motor skills to engage in PA

Exclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents with moderate, severe or profound ID

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical Activity
timeFrame: 32 days (post-test)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Engagement (with the app)
timeFrame: 32 days (post-test)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: Ghent University
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