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Improving Exercise Adherence With App Technology for At-Risk Adults Living in Rural Kansas and Nebraska

NCT07171255 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2025-09-12

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Summary

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are a public health crisis impacting individuals across the world. In the United States, adults living in rural areas face an elevated risk for cognitive impairment mainly due to disparities in care, higher sedentary behavior, and reduced education. This project proposes to assess the impact of a remotely delivered exercise program (i.e., RemoteEx+) through a smartphone application. The app is programmed by our team and provides video demonstrations of exercises, workout regimes, motivational messaging, and weekly ADRD risk reduction education. The project aims to assess with a pre/post design the following aims:

* Aim 1. Assess the RemoteEx+ intervention exercise adherence, efficacy, enjoyment, and quality of life. We hypothesize that rural adults will report high exercise adherence (80% of session adherence), efficacy (\>50% on Self Efficacy for Exercise), and enjoyment (\>5.0 on Intrinsic Motivation Inventory - Interest / Enjoyment Subscale) and that these variables will be positively correlated with quality of life scores (36-Item Short Form Health Survey \[SF-36\])
* Aim 2. Determine the impact of a technology-driven exercise program on blood pressure and functional mobility associated with dementia risk. We hypothesize that the exercise program will result in improvements in blood pressure and functional mobility (2-minute step test and 30-second chair rise test) and that participants with high exercise adherence will see the greatest improvements in biomarkers associated with reduced dementia risk.
* Aim 3. Reduce health disparities among rural-dwelling Nebraska and Kansas residents. We hypothesize that RemoteEx+ will reduce barriers to exercise (Barriers to Being Active Quiz and improve knowledge surrounding dementia and modifiable risk factors (Dementia Knowledge Assessment Tool - Version 2 \[DKAT2\]) that will result in fewer lifestyle-related health disparities for the communities involved in this study.

The results from this project will inform whether RemoteEx+ has an impact on the stated outcomes above for adults living in rural areas.

Conditions

  • Sedentary Middle Age and Older Aged Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

RemoteEx+ Programming

The exercise program will include video instruction for all exercises, motivational cues, and ADRD risk education throughout the 16-week exercise program to encourage exercise adherence. RemoteEx+ is optimized to enhance exercise knowledge surrounding dementia risk factors to facilitate ADRD risk reduction and overall health improvement. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of RemoteEx+ on health outcomes associated with dementia risk in underactive rural adults.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Creighton University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-08-22
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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