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NCT Number: NCT01537939

ASUKI Step Pedometer Worksite Intervention

ASUKI Step is designed to increase the number of days employees walk 10,000 steps and to reduce the number of days employees spend being inactive.

Study aims were:

1. to have a minimum of 400 employee participants from each university site reach a level of 10, 000 steps per day on at least 100 days (3.5 months) during the trial period; 2. to have 70% of the employee participants from each university site maintain two or fewer inactive days per week, defined as a level of less than 3,000 steps per day; 3. to describe the socio-demographic, psychosocial, environmental and health-related determinants of success in the intervention; and 4. to evaluate the effects of a pedometer-based walking intervention in a university setting on changes in self-perceived health and stress level, sleep patterns, anthropometric measures and fitness.

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Key information

Conditions

Physical Activity Behavior Motor Activity

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 4

Primary location

Arizona State University and Karolinska Institutet

Phoenix, Arizona, 85142, United States

About this study

ASUKI Step is a 9-month pedometer-based worksite intervention conducted at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden and Arizona State University (ASU) in the greater Phoenix area, Arizona. ASUKI Step used a quasi-experimental design based on the theory of social support. Participants included 2,118 faculty, staff, and graduate students from ASU (n = 712) and KI (n = 1,406) who participated in teams of 3-4 persons. The intervention required participants to accumulate 10,000 steps each day for six months, with a 3-month follow-up period. Steps were recorded onto a study-specific website. Participants completed a website-delivered questionnaire four times to identify socio-demographic, health, psychosocial and environmental correlates of study participation. One person from each team at each university location was randomly selected to complete physical fitness testing to determine their anthropometric and cardiovascular health and to wear an accelerometer for one week. Incentives were given for compliance to the study protocol that included weekly raffles for participation prizes and a grand finale trip to Arizona or Sweden for teams with most days over 10,000 steps.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Employed at Arizona State University (ASU)or the Karolinska Institute (KI)
  • The ability to read, speak and understand English (ASU only)
  • Not currently pregnant or lactating
  • Free of physical problems that affect the ability to walk, and e) ages 18 and older

Exclusion criteria

  • Inability to walk
  • Not employed or a graduate student at ASU or the KI

Treatment and study plan

ASUKI Step Worksite Pedometer Intervention

Behavioral

The intervention required participants to accumulate 10,000 steps each day for six months, with a 3-month follow-up period. Steps were recorded onto a study-specific website. Participants completed a website-delivered questionnaire four times to identify socio-demographic, health, psychosocial and environmental correlates of study participation. One person from each team at each university location was randomly selected to complete physical fitness testing to determine their anthropometric and cardiovascular health and to wear an accelerometer for one week.

Other names: Pedometer-monitored daily walking

Primary outcomes

  1. Percent of sample walking 10,000 steps per day on at least 100 days (3.5 months) during the trial period.

    Time frame: End of walking intervention at 6 months

    Tally of the participants recording 10,000 steps on their pedometer log for 100 days of the 6 month walking intervention.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in self-perceived health and stress level, sleep patterns, anthropometric measures and fitness.

    Time frame: End of the 6 month walking study

    Compare the measures between the first week and the last week of the 6-month intervention study

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Arizona State University

Other

Collaborators

  • Karolinska Institutet

Registry information

Acronym: ASUKI-Step

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Feb 23, 2012
Registry last updated
Feb 23, 2012

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