A Study to Promote Physical Activity Motivation in Cardiovascular Disease Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

19

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 1, 2022

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2023

Study Completion Date

July 31, 2023

Conditions
Cardiovascular Diseases
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

iPAL App

"The intervention will have a duration of eight weeks. It is theory-based, will be delivered to participants' smartphones via the study app (except components 5 and 6), and comprises the following components:~1. Theory-based individualized feedback.~2. Self-generated motivational messages.~3. Motivation for habit formation through push messages.~4. Motivational images and videos that participants handed in or selected will be sent to them through the app.~5. Study-specific social media groups. Participants will be offered the option to participate in study-specific social media groups.~6. Posting motivational stories. A story of a person, who successfully changed his or her lifestyle to be more physically active and/or less sedentary, will be posted once a week in the study-specific social media groups."

Trial Locations (1)

3012

Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern, Bern

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Bern

OTHER

lead

Claudio Nigg

OTHER