Clinical trial NCT06493006: Promoting Sustainable and Active Mobility Among Employees and Students
Official title: Impact of Physically Active Versus Passive Way to Work on Physical and Mental Aspects of Health in Members At Hannover Universities: an Observational Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Mobility on the Way to Work and Health-related Outcomes
Keywords: commuting to work
active mobility
heart rate variability
sustainable universities
Lead sponsor: Hannover Medical School
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
name: Hochschule Hannover
name: Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
First posted: 2024-07-09
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Employees and Students of Hannover Medical School, Leibniz University Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, and the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (all Lower Saxony, Germany)

Brief summary: The aim of the study is to assess health data (heart rate variability, blood pressure, blood glucose, particulate matter pollution) and travel characteristics (length, duration and type of commute) on the way to and from work from members of the universities in Hannover (Germany).

Detailed description: Active mobility, (i.e. moving around using the own physical strength) has positive sustainability effects. The physically active way to and from college is a great untapped resources for health promotion. The aim of this sub-project is to examine the way to university in order to assess its effect on individual health depending on the means of transport.

In order to determine the status quo and changes in mobility behavior the investigators will use movement trajectories using smartphone apps or inexpensive trackers in a larger cohort, as well as more specified health measures including overweight status, blood pressure, blood glucose concentration, lack of exercise, particulate matter and risk of accidents in a smaller sub-cohort.

By linking this data with the personal characteristics surveyed in other sub-projects, an evaluation of the individual health status and the expected health benefits depending on the route to work can be created. This represents the database for identifying certain groups of people or status groups who could particularly benefit from targeted promotion of an active commute.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* living within 50km around the workplace

Exclusion Criteria:

* current participation in another interventional study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Heart rate variability (HRV)
timeFrame: 24 hours on two separate days for the short-term subgroup, and 7 consecutive days for the long-term subgroup
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Blood glucose concentration
timeFrame: 24 hours on two separate days for the short-term subgroup
measure: Work-Ability-Index
timeFrame: Once at baseline for both study subgroups
measure: 24 hour blood pressure
timeFrame: 24 hours on two separate days for the short-term subgroup
measure: Daily moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) duration
timeFrame: 7 consecutive days for the long-term subgroup
measure: Health-related quality of life
timeFrame: Once at baseline for both study subgroups
measure: Particulate matter
timeFrame: 24 hours on two separate days for the short-term subgroup
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hannover
country: Germany
facility: Hannover Medical School
state: Lower Saxony
Study officials:
affiliation: Hannover Medical School, Clinic of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
name: Uwe Tegtbur, Prof. Dr.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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