Clinical trial NCT04857918: Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Social Identity Informed Virtual Running Group Program
Official title: The UBC Socializing Together While Running InDEpendently (STRIDE) Pilot Trial: A Social Identity Informed Virtual Running Group Program
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Well-being
Physical Activity
Identity, Social
Keywords: Feasibility
Acceptability
Well-being
Social identity
Exercise identity
Exercise
Physical Activity
Social Support
Lead sponsor: University of British Columbia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
name: University of Victoria
First posted: 2021-04-23
Enrollment: 73
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study will utilize a two-arm, parallel group, unblinded randomized controlled pilot trial design. UBC undergraduate students (N = 60) will be equally randomized to either an eight-week social identity building virtual running group (n = 30) or an eight-week control group (n = 30).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The STRIDE Pilot Trial is a randomized controlled pilot trial that will utilize social identity informed virtual running groups to support underactive undergraduate students' well-being and exercise behaviour. The main outcomes of this study are to determine whether the intervention is feasible and acceptable to conduct as a full-scale efficacy trial. Secondary outcomes of interest include changes in participants' exercise identity, exercise behaviour, perceived social support, and well-being. Participants' perceived social identification with their running group will also be assessed at the end of the study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* currently residing in Canada
* age 18+
* enrolled in undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia
* underactive (i.e., currently participating in less than the Canadian physical activity guidelines of 150 minutes of physical activity per week)
* not experience any health contraindication which might prevent that person from participating in moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise.
* able to speak and read English
* own a smart phone
* have home access to the internet and a device with camera functionality

Exclusion Criteria:

* If a potential participant has a medical contraindication (flagged through the PAR-Q+ and ePARmedX) and have NOT been cleared to participate in physical activity by their physician they are then ineligible to participate in the study
* Participants are asked to record their running and walking behaviour on the fitness application Strava, and participate in Zoom coffee chats with their running group. If an individual is unwilling to download the Strava application and/or do not want to use Zoom they will be excluded from the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Participant interest in the program
timeFrame: Recorded from recruitment to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Participant enrolment
timeFrame: Follow up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Affective attitudes towards exercise
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Program satisfaction
timeFrame: Follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Study Retention
timeFrame: Recorded from Baseline (Week 0) to follow up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Questionnaire completion rates
timeFrame: Recorded from Baseline (Week 0) to follow up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Program attendance
timeFrame: Recorded from Baseline (Week 0) to follow up (Week 8)
measure: Feasibility and Acceptability: Semi structured interviews
timeFrame: Follow up (Week 8)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Well-Being (Psychological Flourishing)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Perceived Social Support Received in the Context of Exercise
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Well-Being (Subjective Vitality)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Exercise Identity
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Social Identification with the Running Group
timeFrame: Follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Exercise Behaviour
timeFrame: Change from Baseline (Week 0) to follow-up (Week 8)
measure: Weekly exercise behaviour (activity type)
timeFrame: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
measure: Weekly exercise behaviour (activity duration)
timeFrame: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
measure: Demographics
timeFrame: Baseline (Week 0)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: University of British Columbia
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
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