Smartphone Applications to Improve Lifestyles in Olders Over 65 Years (EVIDENT-Age)

Fundacion para la Investigacion y Formacion en Ciencias de la Salud

Status: Completed

Conditions: Telemedicine

Treatments: Behavioral: Intervention (training in use of a Smartphone application); Behavioral: Control (Advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03574480

YB17/00003

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled clinical trial performed in urban primary care centers in Salamanca (Spain). Its objective is to evaluate the effect of an intervention based on the use of new information and communication technologies in a population of people over 65 years of age in the improvement of lifestyles, body composition, quality of life, cognitive performance and daily life activities.

Full description

• Objective: To evaluate the effect of an intervention based on the use of new information and communication technologies in a population of people over 65 years of age.
• Design and setting: A randomized clinical trial of two parallel groups. Population: 140 participants over 65 years of age will be included, selected by consecutive sampling in primary care centers of Salamanca (Spain.
• Measurements and intervention: Lifestyles (physical activity, sedentarism and mediterranean diet), body composition, health-related quality of life, cognitive performance and daily life activities will be evaluated at 3 months. The advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations will be common to both groups. The intervention group will be added a training for 3 months in use of a Smartphone application, designed to promote a healthy diet, increased physical acivity and decreased sedentary.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Informed consent signed
• Age between 65 and 80 years

Exclusion criteria

• Cardiovascular disease
• Moderate or severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Musculoskeletal disease that limits ambulation.
• Severe mental illness
• Score in the Mini-mental <24 points.
• Oncological disease in treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control (Advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations)

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

* Advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations * Training for 3 months in use of a Smartphone application, designed to promote a healthy diet, increased physical acivity and decreased sedentary.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control (Advice on healthy diet and physical activity recommendations)

Behavioral: Intervention (training in use of a Smartphone application)