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Text Messaging to Increase Activity in Midlife

NCT04849052 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 116

Last updated 2025-01-23

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Summary

This is a randomized controlled pilot trial of a text message intervention to promote physical activity in midlife adults (MASTERY), compared to an attention-matched control condition. The MASTERY intervention utilizes two-way text message sessions once-weekly for 12 weeks focusing on performing activities to enhance well being, setting physical activity goals, and learning techniques to reduce midlife-specific stress.

Conditions

  • Middle Aged

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MASTERY

In MASTERY, participants will have interactive, two-way text message 'sessions' (5-10 minutes of two-way text communication with an automated text-message program) once weekly for 12 weeks. Furthermore, study trainers will conduct 4 brief calls with participants (Weeks 1, 4, 7, and 12) to introduce the program, assess progress, answer questions, and provide support.

BEHAVIORAL

Attentional Control

Participants in the control condition will also receive text messages once per week. To ensure time matching, the program will have 4 phone check-ins (on physical activity) as in MASTERY.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeff C Huffman, MD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-16
Primary Completion
2024-09-16
Completion
2024-09-16

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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