Real-time Behavioral Interventions

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Aging; Cancer; Comorbidities and Coexisting Conditions

Treatments: Behavioral: Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04457128

20-03-3472

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to adapt an evidence-based sedentary behavior reduction intervention for men and women living in Alabama and determine its feasibility, acceptance, and limited efficacy.

Full description

The goal of this study is to adapt an evidence-based sedentary behavior reduction intervention for men and women living in Alabama and determine its feasibility, acceptance, and limited efficacy. Community-based Participatory Research methods will be used to adapt an evidence-based curriculum. The adapted curriculum will be delivered via print-based materials and a mobile phone app developed by an external collaborator.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • 50 to 75 years old at study enrollment;

  • Currently living in Alabama;
  • Community-dwelling (i.e., not living in an assisted living facility or nursing home);
  • Having access to the internet and a smart phone;
  • Able to perform light-intensity physical activity (i.e., walking);
  • English speaking;
  • Willing to consent to study procedure.

Exclusion criteria

• Reporting more than 60 minutes of purposeful physical activity per week;
• Have an unstable mental condition that prevention study activities. Determined by the Physician Health questionnaire.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 4 patient groups

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