FIT4Life Text Message Program

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Physical Activity; Behavior Change

Treatments: Behavioral: text messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06873139

STUDY00003517

Details and patient eligibility

About

FIT4Life is a text message based physical activity project that includes one baseline week and 26 weeks of intervention delivery. Study participants will be provided with fitness trackers to support their physical activity goals. The text messages are intended to motivate participants to engage in physical activity throughout the week, but do not prescribe specific exercises/workout regimens for participants to follow.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Able to read, write, and speak English
• Currently a Diabetes Prevention Program group or in a similar group that is recruited by the external community partner (Our Healthy Jackson County)

Exclusion criteria

• Does not meet the inclusion criteria listed above

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

High Arm

Experimental group

Description:

High-arm participants will receive daily messages related to wear reminders, encouragements, congratulatory content, and behavior change based on the activity tracker data. Step counts from the activity tracker are included in some messages to track and facilitate step goals. Some text message content asks for a response from the participant to help tailor later messages for behavior change support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: text messages

Low Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Low arm participants will receive weekly messages related to reminders to wear their activity tracker and tips on how to use the tracker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: text messages