e-Mobile Tablet for People With Chronic Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial

Official title: Examining the Usability of Computer Tablets to Promote Symptom Self-management and Engagement in Healthy Behaviors in Adults With Chronic Conditions

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Maintaining a healthy diet and engaging in routine physical activity may help decrease severity of symptoms, prevent secondary conditions, and slow functional decline in people with disabling neuromusculoskeletal conditions. However, people with these conditions face many health barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors. With the advent of portable technologies, such as smart phones, tablets and PDAs, there is a need to explore whether these technologies can help people with disabling conditions to stay motivated and overcome barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors.

Clinical Trial Description

The overarching goal of this mixed methods, comparative effectiveness randomized controlled pilot study is to evaluate whether goal setting, self-monitoring, and barrier management using a computer tablet can increase physical activity behavior, improve nutritional habits, and promote health-related quality of life in people with disabling neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Our hypothesis is that, in comparison to the standard care contact control group, participants in both the tablet group and the paper and pencil group will yield significant improvements in healthy behaviors,with the tablet group yielding significantly larger increases. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fibromyalgia
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Osteoarthritis
• Parkinson Disease
• Parkinson's Disease
• Sjogren's Syndrome
• Sjögren's Syndrome

• NCT number: NCT02833311
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Case Western Reserve University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2013
• Completion date: April 2016