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Digital Health Weight Management Among Public Housing Residents

NCT04852042 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 316

Last updated 2025-09-26

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Summary

This research will test the efficacy of a weight management intervention through a three-group randomized trial: mHealth only, mHealth+Community Health Worker (CHW) support, versus control group, among residents of Boston's public housing developments. The mHealth group consists of a 1-year text messaging program to promote diet and physical activity behavior changes and the CHW support consists of monthly phone counseling delivered by a CHW to support the text messaging program. Our hypothesis is that the mHealth+CHW group will be more effective in bringing about weight loss compared to mHealth alone or the assessment only control group. The findings are expected to inform future health promotion efforts among residents in public housing developments.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mHealth

Participants will receive 2-3 text messages daily. The messages will include information to promote healthy eating and physical activity.

BEHAVIORAL

CHW support

The CHW will provide behavioral counseling to participants guided by a study website related to their healthy eating and physical activity goals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Tufts Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lisa Quintiliani, PhD · Tufts Medical Center

  • Ziming Xuan, ScD · BU School of Public Health, Community Health Services

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-28
Primary Completion
2025-08-07
Completion
2025-08-11

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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