Clinical trial NCT02129023: The Impact of Exergame on User Health
Official title: The Impact of Exergame on User Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Impact of Exergame Use on User Health
Keywords: Exergame
user health
exercise
Lead sponsor: Chang Gung University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
First posted: 2014-05-01
Enrollment: 116
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to examine whether exergame use can improve user health, in terms of physical fitness, self-rated mental health and physical health, and favorable attitude, strong intention, and actual behavior of future exercise. Moreover, this study also examines whether past exercise moderates the impact of exergame use on user health.

Detailed description: The main hypotheses are:

H1: Compared with the control group participants (who do not use exergame) the experimental group participants (who use exergame) have better change in physical fitness. The difference between these two groups in the amount of change is negatively related to past exercise.

H2: Compared with the control group participants (who do not use exergame) the experimental group participants (who use exergame) have better change in (a) mental health and (b) physical health after the intervention. The difference between these two groups in the amount of change is negatively related to past exercise.

H3: Compared with the control group participants (who do not use exergame) the experimental group participants (who use exergame) have better change in (a) attitude, (b) intention and (c) behavior of doing another exercise in the future. The difference between these two groups in the amount of change is negatively related to past exercise.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* junior and senior undergraduate student
* senior graduate student

Exclusion Criteria:

* asthma
* high myopia
* anemia
* vertigo
* cardiopathy
* hypertension
* unstable of intracranial pressure and blood pressure
* cardiac arrhythmia
* heart failure
* angor pectoris
* injury of vertebra
* ankylosing spondylitis
* hereditary cardiac arrhythmia
* musculoskeletal system injury
* glaucoma
* psychiatric disorders

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in physical fitness
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in mental and physical health (12 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 12 weeks
measure: Change in attitude of future exercise (12 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 12 weeks
measure: Change in intention of future exercise (12 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 12 weeks
measure: Change in behavior of future exercise (12 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 12 weeks
measure: Change in mental and physical health (8 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 8 weeks
measure: Change in attitude of future exercise (8 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 8 weeks
measure: Change in intention of future exercise (8 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 8 weeks
measure: Change in behavior of future exercise (8 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 8 weeks
measure: Change in mental and physical health (4 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 4 weeks
measure: Change in attitude of future exercise (4 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 4 weeks
measure: Change in intention of future exercise (4 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 4 weeks
measure: Change in behavior of future exercise (4 weeks)
timeFrame: The beginning and the end of expected average of 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
measure: Perceived Challenge (beginning)
timeFrame: Beginning of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Achievement (beginning)
timeFrame: Beginning of the participation in this study
measure: Continuance Intention (beginning)
timeFrame: Beginning of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Challenge (after 4 weeks)
timeFrame: After 4 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Achievement (after 4 weeks)
timeFrame: After 4 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Continuance Intention (after 4 weeks)
timeFrame: After 4 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Challenge (after 8 weeks)
timeFrame: After 8 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Achievement (after 8 weeks)
timeFrame: After 8 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Continuance Intention (after 8 weeks)
timeFrame: After 8 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Challenge (after 12 weeks)
timeFrame: After 12 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Perceived Achievement (after 12 weeks)
timeFrame: After 12 weeks of the participation in this study
measure: Continuance Intention (after 12 weeks)
timeFrame: After 12 weeks of the participation in this study
Locations:
city: Taoyuan
country: Taiwan
facility: Chang Gung University
Study officials:
affiliation: Chang Gung University
name: Ching-I Teng, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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