The Use of a Consumer-Based mHealth Dietary App and Health Coaching With Kidney Transplant Recipients (TASK)

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Kidney Transplant; Complications; Kidney Transplant

Treatments: Behavioral: mHealth dietary app + health coaching intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05151445

2020B0261

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to test the feasibility mHealth dietary app + health coaching for improving primary outcomes (recruitment, retention, and adherence) and secondary outcomes (perceived stress [ Perceived Stress Scale], exercise self-efficacy[Exercise Self-efficacy Scale], vegetable intake [Fruit, Vegetables, and Fiber Screen] fat intake [Lose-it Premium database], carbohydrate intake [Lose-it Premium database], weight, [Wi-Fi weight scale using the Lose-it Premium database], and blood pressure [Wi-Fi blood pressure cuff using the Lose-it Premium database].

Full description

The proposed study seeks to shift the paradigm for promoting diet intake and physical activity using education and self-report to provide a powerful combination of mHealth dietary app and health coaching (set goals, provide ongoing feedback, and self-monitor behaviors). To the investigators knowledge, this is the first time a mHealth dietary app and health coaching intervention has been used in kidney transplant recipients to link real-time data for monitoring dietary intake and physical activity.

The long-term goal of this work is to enhance well-being in kidney recipients via lifestyle self-management of care for dietary intake and physical activity to ultimately prevent chronic diseases. The proposed study is important because early weight gain after kidney transplant is associated with adverse effects on the transplanted kidney function resulting in increased health care cost and poor quality of life. Interventions are needed to monitor kidney transplant recipients diet and physical activity in real-time to prevent health decline.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18 or older men and women
• functioning KTR (not on dialysis)
• ability to speak, read, and hear English,
• possession of a smartphone capable of accessing and downloading a mHealth dietary app
• Wi-Fi or Internet access,
• greater than 3 months post-transplant (due to medication adjustments and decreased functional levels),
• not hospitalized
• capable of self-consent per capacity screening.

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in a weight loss program
• participation in a structured exercise program
• diagnosis of dementia.

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

mHealth dietary app + health coaching intervention

Description:

A feasibility study will be utilized to establish the recruitment, retention, and adherence with post-kidney transplant recipients using a consumer-based mHealth dietary app + health coaching.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mHealth dietary app + health coaching intervention