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Parent-targeted Mobile Phone Based Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Children (P-Mobile)

NCT01551108 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2016-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is designed to determine if parents can deliver an intervention that will help increase physical activity in their children. The parents will be given the intervention through their mobile phones.

Conditions

  • Physical Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention: limited behavioral strategies

Parents are given access to a website, formatted for a mobile phone. The website provides parents with a target steps/day goal for their child and parents are instructed to use their mobile phone to access the study website to record their child's step count each night. Parents are also sent monthly healthy nutrition tips via text message targeting the child in order to provide these families with potentially health promoting information.

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention: advanced behavioral strategies

Parents are given access to a website, formatted for a mobile phone. The website provides parents with a target steps/day goal for their child and parents are instructed to use their mobile phone to access the study website to record their child's step count each night. Parents also receive additional behavioral strategies based on the Social Cognitive Theory. The strategies are delivered through weekly articles posted on the website. Text messages are designed to prompt parents to encourage their child's physical activity, remind parents of behavioral concepts presented in the articles (article tip), and motivate parents to foster behavioral change in their child.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Coca-Cola Company

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert L. Newton, Jr., PhD · Pennington Biomedical Research Center

  • Timothy Church, MD,MPH,PhD · Pennington Biomedial Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-31
Primary Completion
2013-08-31
Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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