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Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial

INTRODUCTION: The time during which many attend college or university is an important period for developing health behaviours, with potentially major implications for future health. Therefore, it is concerning that many Swedish students excessively consume alcohol, have unhealthy diets, are not phys...

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Autores principales: Åsberg, Katarina, Lundgren, Oskar, Henriksson, Hanna, Henriksson, Pontus, Bendtsen, Preben, Löf, Marie, Bendtsen, Marcus
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719203/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051044
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author Åsberg, Katarina
Lundgren, Oskar
Henriksson, Hanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Bendtsen, Preben
Löf, Marie
Bendtsen, Marcus
author_facet Åsberg, Katarina
Lundgren, Oskar
Henriksson, Hanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Bendtsen, Preben
Löf, Marie
Bendtsen, Marcus
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description INTRODUCTION: The time during which many attend college or university is an important period for developing health behaviours, with potentially major implications for future health. Therefore, it is concerning that many Swedish students excessively consume alcohol, have unhealthy diets, are not physical active and smoke. The potential of digital interventions which integrate support for change of all of these behaviours is largely unexplored, as are the dismantled effects of the individual components that make up digital lifestyle behaviour interventions. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A factorial randomised trial (six factors with two levels each) will be employed to estimate the effects of the components of a novel mHealth multiple lifestyle intervention on alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity and smoking among Swedish college and university students. A Bayesian group sequential design will be employed to periodically make decisions to continue or stop recruitment, with simulations suggesting that between 1500 and 2500 participants will be required. Multilevel regression models will be used to analyse behavioural outcomes collected at 2 and 4 months postrandomisation. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority on 2020-12-15 (Dnr 2020-05496). The main concern is the opportunity cost if the intervention is found to only have small effects. However, considering the lack of a generally available evidence-based multiple lifestyle behaviour support to university and college students, this risk was deemed acceptable given the potential benefits from the study. Recruitment will begin in March 2021, and it is expected that recruitment will last no more than 24 months. A final data set will, therefore, be available in July 2023, and findings will be reported no later than December 2023. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN23310640; Pre-results.
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spelling pubmed-87192032022-01-12 Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial Åsberg, Katarina Lundgren, Oskar Henriksson, Hanna Henriksson, Pontus Bendtsen, Preben Löf, Marie Bendtsen, Marcus BMJ Open Public Health INTRODUCTION: The time during which many attend college or university is an important period for developing health behaviours, with potentially major implications for future health. Therefore, it is concerning that many Swedish students excessively consume alcohol, have unhealthy diets, are not physical active and smoke. The potential of digital interventions which integrate support for change of all of these behaviours is largely unexplored, as are the dismantled effects of the individual components that make up digital lifestyle behaviour interventions. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A factorial randomised trial (six factors with two levels each) will be employed to estimate the effects of the components of a novel mHealth multiple lifestyle intervention on alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity and smoking among Swedish college and university students. A Bayesian group sequential design will be employed to periodically make decisions to continue or stop recruitment, with simulations suggesting that between 1500 and 2500 participants will be required. Multilevel regression models will be used to analyse behavioural outcomes collected at 2 and 4 months postrandomisation. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority on 2020-12-15 (Dnr 2020-05496). The main concern is the opportunity cost if the intervention is found to only have small effects. However, considering the lack of a generally available evidence-based multiple lifestyle behaviour support to university and college students, this risk was deemed acceptable given the potential benefits from the study. Recruitment will begin in March 2021, and it is expected that recruitment will last no more than 24 months. A final data set will, therefore, be available in July 2023, and findings will be reported no later than December 2023. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN23310640; Pre-results. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8719203/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051044 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Public Health
Åsberg, Katarina
Lundgren, Oskar
Henriksson, Hanna
Henriksson, Pontus
Bendtsen, Preben
Löf, Marie
Bendtsen, Marcus
Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title_full Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title_fullStr Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title_full_unstemmed Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title_short Multiple lifestyle behaviour mHealth intervention targeting Swedish college and university students: protocol for the Buddy randomised factorial trial
title_sort multiple lifestyle behaviour mhealth intervention targeting swedish college and university students: protocol for the buddy randomised factorial trial
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719203/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051044
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