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The Effects of a Mobile Health Intervention and Health Coach Text Messaging on Cardiovascular Risk of Older Adults

NCT03720327 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2022-11-18

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Summary

This study, "Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults", will test a mobile-health based intervention which includes use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months, a smartphone application that tracks daily food intake, and one 45 minute counseling session to create personal goals and provide patient education by a health coach; versus Get FIT+ (the same items) plus personalized text messages focusing on participant's activity and nutrition progress as monitored in the app, from the health coach for 3 months. The investigators will measure the impact on participant's diet, physical activity, clinical outcomes, psychosocial well-being, and engagement.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Get FIT

The Get FIT arm includes use of a free commercially available smartphone application to track daily food intake for 3 months; use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months; and one 45 minute behavioral counseling session to set personal goals and provide education by a health coach.

BEHAVIORAL

Get FIT+

The Get FIT+ arm includes use of a free commercially available smartphone application to track daily food intake for 3 months; use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months; one 45 minute behavioral counseling session to set personal goals and provide education by a health coach; and personalized text messaging for 3 months by a health coach. The health coach will have access to these participants' daily food and activity data through the smartphone application, and will monitor progress and send push-only text messages to participants in this group based on the participant's goals and progress in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, and weight loss.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Irvine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lorraine Evangelista, PhD · University of California, Irvine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-10
Primary Completion
2022-03-12
Completion
2022-03-12

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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