Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Using Mobile Phones

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01516411

SU-09162011-8409

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to test programs to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior using motivational messages over a cell phone.

Full description

We want to learn if conceptually-based behavioral interventions for promoting increased physical activity and decreased sedentary behavior via state-of-the-art mobile phones will be efficacious at improving these behaviors relative to commercially available Android applications as a control. If efficacious, these types of intervention programs could be disseminated to a wide variety of sedentary and underactive adults at a relatively low cost. This could have a potentially significant impact on promoting improved health such as reduced obesity, a key problem within the U.S.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 45 and older, currently sedentary, owns and uses a cell phone but not a Smartphone, willing to be randomly assigned

Exclusion criteria

• free of clinically evident cardiovascular disease or any other medical condition or disorder that would limit participation in moderate intensity physical activities akin to brisk walking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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130 participants in 4 patient groups

Cognitive app

Active Comparator group

Description:

Cognitive app promotes behavior change via goal setting, feedback, and problem solving

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford

Social app

Active Comparator group

Description:

Social app promotes behavior change via social relationships and feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford

Affect app

Active Comparator group

Description:

Affect app promotes behavior change via game-like elements including the use of a bird avatar as a visual representation of one's activities and operant conditioning

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford

Nutrition app

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nutrition app promotes behavior change bvia tracking of food consumption

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford