Measuring Outcomes With Validated Exercise
Boston University
Summary
Physical activity and its intensity level is a critical determinant of health. Digital Health Technologies, such as wearable accelerometers (wrist-worn watch-like devices), can provide researchers and clinicians with objective measures of activity intensity, duration, and effect on an individual's physiology which can provide important insight into overall health. The purpose of this observational study is to assess how well wrist-worn devices can measure the intensity of movement and exercise. This study is designed to rigorously validate existing activity classification algorithms using synchronized multi-sensor data and indirect calorimetry during structured, semi-structured, and free-living tasks.
Description
The study involves three in person visits and a one week at home period with the first visit being an intake assessment of eligibility to participate in the study. If a participant consents to participate and meets inclusion/exclusion criteria, the participant will be scheduled for the follow on in clinic visits. The second visit is the first of two in-laboratory activity-based visits. Healthy participants will wear: 1) three wrist-worn watch-like devices, the ActiGraph CentrePoint Insight Watch (CPIW), the ActiGraph Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP), and the GENEActiv, to…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–89 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Participant is willing and able to comply with study instructions, study visits, and procedures including wearing a tight-fitting respiratory mask * Able to ambulate independently, including walking/running on a treadmill without assistance. * Demonstrates fluency in English * Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of ≥26 * Score of 100 on the Barthel Index * Participant has reliable access to internet Exclusion Criteria: * Participation in other digital device trials within 1 week or investigational drug trials within 5 half-lives of last dose. * Allergy to polyur…
Location
- Boston Medical Center and BU Medical CampusBoston, Massachusetts