A BCT Intervention for an Hourly Activity Habit Among Caregivers for Persons With AD/ADRD

Northwell Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sedentary Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavior Change Technique Package

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06801912

24-0042

2P30AG063786 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This 12-week trial will test the efficacy of a personalized, multi-component, personalized text-message delivered behavior change technique (BCT) intervention to encourage habitual hourly physical activity among care providers of persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) via the key mechanism of behavior change (MoBC) of automaticity.

The main question it aims to answer is whether a multi-component, personalized BCT intervention to increase habitual walking of >250 steps/hour will lead to successful development of habitual hourly walking among 50% of caregivers.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Identify as a caregiver (formal/paid or informal/unpaid) for persons with Alzheimer's Disease or Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)
• Age >=18 and <=85
• Speak English or Spanish as primary language
• Self-report low levels of physical activity or walking

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who self-report having been informed by a clinician it is medically or physically unsafe to engage in a walking intervention
• Does not own or cannot regularly access a smartphone capable of receiving text messages or accessing the internet
• Does not own or have access to an email address
• Lives outside the United States

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Behavior Change Technique Package

Experimental group

Description:

This will be a 12-week, single-arm, multi-component, personalized BCT intervention. Participants will be provided with 4 BCTs daily (Goal Setting, Action Planning, Self-Monitoring, and Prompt/Cue) that have been associated with habit formation theory and development of physical activity habits in prior research.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavior Change Technique Package