mHealth-supported Coach

Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Heart Disease Risk Factors

Treatments: Behavioral: Conventional Health coaching; Behavioral: mHealth-supported coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05422729

05200218

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a personalised mHealth-supported coach programme in the middle-aged group with stroke risk.

Full description

Aim: To evaluate the effects of a personalised mHealth-supported coach programme on the adoption of health-promoting behaviours in the middle-aged group, in comparison with usual care.

Design: A 24-month prospective two-arm, parallel-group, single-blinded, repeated-measure randomised controlled trial will be conducted.

Participants: People who aged between 40 and 64, mentally competent, have a non-laboratory INTERHEART risk score (IHRS) of 10 or higher, communicable in Chinese and free from stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) or other cardiovascular disease will be eligible to the study. A total of 164 participants will be recruited through a district community centre and randomly assigned on 1:1 ratio to the intervention group or the control group.

Intervention: A theory-based mHealth-supported coach programme, including individual consultation sessions and a mobile application with a virtual sharing platform, is developed by a multidisciplinary team for the intervention group over three months, whereas the control group receives usual care.

Enrollment: 164 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chinese ethnic
• able to read Chinese and communicate in Cantonese/Mandarin
• with non-laboratory IHRS score 10 or higher

Exclusion criteria

• mentally incompetent
• previously diagnosed with stroke, TIA, MI, coronary heart disease, heart failure or atrial fibrillation
• with eye or retinal disease
• with terminal disease with an expected life expectancy less than six months
• being pregnant
• have enrolled in other lifestyle-based or exercise-based projects
• do have mobile devices or internet service to access the mobile application

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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164 participants in 2 patient groups

Personalised mHeatlh-supported coaching programme

Experimental group

Description:

Three monthly individual consultation session, supported with a specific mobile application.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mHealth-supported coaching

Traditional in-person health coaching programme

Active Comparator group

Description:

Three monthly individual consultation sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional Health coaching