An interventional study of Cycle Nation Multicomponent Intervention in Health Behavior, sponsored by University of Glasgow. Status unknown at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-07-29.
Sponsored by University of Glasgow · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Interventions to increase the number of people cycling regularly are likely to induce a range of health and societal benefits, including reduced incidence of heart disease, cancer and obesity, improved mental health and well-being, and reduced road congestion and air pollution. They are also likely to provide tangible financial and in-kind benefits to employers and society, through reduced workforce absenteeism, increased productivity and decreased use of NHS resources. However, increasing the number of people cycling regularly is complex and interventions undertaken to date have only been modestly successful. Thus, to induce a step-change in the number of people cycling in the United Kingdom (UK), in line with British Cycling and HSBC UK's stated aim of getting two million more people on bikes, new approaches are needed.
The research team have been working with staff and management at British Cycling and HSBC to co-develop a novel, multi-component intervention for delivery at HSBC offices to increase the number of employees cycling regularly. The intervention has four main components: 1) a six (intermediate) or nine (foundation) week practical skills programme; 2) cycle provision (tune-up/loan/subsidised purchase) schemes; 3) establishment of a cycle-friendly workplace culture; 4) a cycle app. The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of this intervention in a before-and-after study in four HSBC offices around the UK.
Objective: To assess the feasibility of the novel multicomponent workplace cycling intervention that aims to support more employees to cycle regularly. There are eight related research questions:
Setting and Participants: The study will be conducted at four HSBC offices across the UK, which have some degree of on-site cycle infrastructure (e.g. secure bike racks, showers, lockers). At each office, up to 40 participants will be recruited to either the foundation (nine-week) or intermediate (six-week) practical skills programme (up to 160 participants in total across the four sites). Participants will be self-identified infrequent cyclists (currently cycle less than once per month or not at all) aged 18 years or over who are current HSBC employees.
Interventions:
The intervention has four main components.
Outcomes:
The feasibility study will assess: recruitment, retention, adherence, feasibility of delivery of all components, fidelity to intervention protocol, acceptability (to participants and cycle champions, other staff in the office who are not doing the practical skills programme but are exposed to the cycle-friendly culture, HSBC office managers and bike providers), and likely primary outcomes of any future randomised controlled trial (RCT) - number of people cycling regularly (both monthly and weekly) and number of cycling journeys for transport or leisure in the last month, both self-reported. The investigators will also assess likely secondary outcomes in a future RCT at baseline, 9 weeks, and 13 weeks.
Participant characteristics (e.g. date of birth, gender, postcode of residence, marital status, education, smoking status, alcohol consumption, job description) will be recorded at baseline only. Extent of delivery, acceptability and perceived utility of programme components (practical skills programme components, bike provision, cycle-friendly culture and cycle app), and acceptability of the study procedures will be assessed at follow up only. Adverse events and injury will be assessed at all time points. Health economists will work with HSBC head office staff to identify available sources of cost and benefit data throughout the study.
University of Glasgow is the lead sponsor of 141 studies on the registry; 20 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
The cycle training intervention group
Behavioral: Cycle Nation Multicomponent Intervention
This intervention group will receive 4 elements: 1. Practical skills programme: a workplace-based programme covering basic cycling skills, delivered by trained 'cycle champions' - HSBC staff members. 2. Cycle provision scheme: participants will have the opportunity to have their own bicycles serviced or obtain a loaned bike or e-bike from local bike shops before the start of the programme. 3. Cycle-friendly workplace culture: all offices taking part will have a minimum of secure bike parking facilities as part of an ongoing roll-out of cycle infrastructure across HSBC UK offices. 4. Our Cycle Hub app: an adapted version of an existing HSBC app including route planning, goal setting and practical skills videos, as well as supportive social interaction among participants.
Feasibility of intervention delivery: Investigator conducted session observations
To measure the feasibility of delivery of all cycle training components by investigator conducted session observations.
Time frame: 9 weeks
Feasibility of intervention delivery: Investigator conducted interviews
To measure the feasibility of delivery of all cycle training components by investigator conducted interviews with cycle champions.
Time frame: 9 weeks
Cycling behaviour
Self reported number of people cycling regularly (both monthly and weekly) and number of cycling journeys for transport or leisure in the last month.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant and Cycle Champion recruitment
Measeurement of the recruitment of participants and cycle champions.
Time frame: Conducted pre baseline
Participant and Cycle Champion retention
Measurement of the number of participants and cycle champions who undertake the training course to completion, as well as participant drop-out
Time frame: Change from baseline to 9 weeks
Participant adherence to the cycle training course
Measurement of participant attendance to training sessions
Time frame: Through study completion to 9 weeks
Cycle Champion interviews: acceptability of cycle training course delivery
Interview measured acceptability of all elements of intervention delivery (cycle champions)
Time frame: 9 weeks
Participant questionnaire: Likert scale of training course acceptability
Self-reported questionnaire measured acceptability of all elements of intervention delivery
Time frame: 9 weeks
Objectively-measured incidental physical activity
Minutes spent in activity per day measured using the activPAL device.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant questionnaire reported motivation: 15 item Likert scale
15 item scale adapted from Markland, D. \& Tobin, V. (2004). Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 26, 191-196 (BREQ-2 for PA)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant questionnaire measured work-related productivity: Likert scale
Likert scale of productivity adapted from Kessler et al's World Health Organisation Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported monthly cycling activity: number of rides and duration
Questionnaire measured of cycling activity adapted from Craig CL, Marshall AL, Sjostrom M, Bauman A, Booth ML, Ainsworth BE, Pratt M, Ekelund U, Yngve A, Sallis JF, Oja P: International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2003, 35:1381-1395. Craig CL, Marshall AL, Sjostrom M, Bauman A, Booth ML, Ainsworth BE, Pratt M, Ekelund U, Yngve A, Sallis JF, Oja P: International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 2003, 35:1381-1395. Adapted DINE questionnaire: Roe L, Strong C, Whiteside C, Neil A, Mant D. Dietary intervention in primary care: validity of the DINE method for diet assessment. Fam Pract 1994; 11: 375-81.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported dietry intake: DINE questionnaire
Adapted DINE questionnaire: Roe L, Strong C, Whiteside C, Neil A, Mant D. Dietary intervention in primary care: validity of the DINE method for diet assessment. Fam Pract 1994; 11: 375-81.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported number of days of work-related absenteeism/presenteeism
Self reported days per month of absenteeism/presenteeism adapted from Kessler et al's World Health Organisation Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self reported job satisfaction: Likert scale
Questionnaire measured job satisfaction adapted from Kessler et al's World Health Organisation Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported work-related stress: Likert scale
Questionnaire measured work-related stress adapted from Kessler et al's World Health Organisation Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported autonomy: Likert scale
Questionnaire measured autonomy adapted from Bartholomew, K. J., Ntoumanis, N., Ryan, R. M., \& Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C. (2011). Journal of Sport \& Exercise Psychology, 33, 75e102.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported competence: 6 item Likert scale
Questionnaire measured competence adapted from Roberts, G.C., Treasure D. C., \& Balague, G. (1998). Achievement goals in sport: The development and validation of the Perception of Success Questionnaire. Journal of Sport Sciences. 19, 337-347.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported relatedness: 6 item Likert scale
Questionnaire measured relatedness adapted from Van den Broeck et al (2010). J Occup Organiz Psych 83:981-1002
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported perceptions of cycling safety: 5 item Likert scale
Questionnaire measured scale of perceptions of cycling safety
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported wellbeing: 14 item Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales - WEMWBS
Questionnaire measured participant wellbeing.
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported self esteem: 10 item Rosenberg scale of self esteem
Self-esteem questionnaire
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported vitality: 4 item Bostic scale
4-item scale of vitality (Bostic, T. J., McGartland-Rubio, D., \& Hood, M. (2000). A validation of the subjective vitality scale using structural equation modeling)
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Participant self-reported general physical health: EQ-5D-5L
Questionnaire measure of health-related quality of life
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Body mass
Body mass in kilograms
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Weight and height will be combined to report BMI in kg/m\^2
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Waist circumference
Waist circumference in centimeters
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Blood pressure
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Homestasis Model Estimated Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR)
Calculated from fasting insulin and glucose concentrations
Time frame: Change from baseline to 13 weeks
Plan to share: No — These data will only be handled by UoG researchers
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