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Location-based Smartphone Technology to Guide College Students Healthy Choices Ph II

NCT02996864 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2023-02-06

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Summary

College students are in a newly independent phase of life; many of whom encounter unhealthy dietary decision- making, barriers to physical activity, and poor sleep behaviors. Healthy Detours is a location-based smartphone application tailored in real-time to a student's schedule and locale, and aims to guide students toward healthier eating, exercise, and lifestyle choices as a way to prevent the onset of damaging and costly health outcomes. Through a randomized control trial, this Phase II project will test the effectiveness of an evidence-based smartphone application that will provide students with on-demand, location-specific information about healthy lifestyle choices.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity
  • Health Behavior
  • Sleep Deprivation

Interventions

OTHER

Healthy Detours App

The app features: * Immediate and relevant feedback at the point of decision-making to reinforce healthy lifestyle behaviors within a population making crucial lifestyle choices. * User-centered and location-specific tailored information to provide users with information to improve future decision-making through activity tracking. * Multiple health-tracking features (i.e., diet and PA tracking, and accelerometry for PA and sleep) that will aid in self-monitoring.

OTHER

Fat Secret App

Freely available app for weight loss and nutrition. Includes food and exercise diaries; calorie counting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Klein Buendel, Inc.

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Valerie Myers, PhD · Klein Buendel, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
29 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2018-02-28
Completion
2018-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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