Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Using Mobile Phones

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Using Mobile Phones

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01516411
• Other study ID #: SU-09162011-8409
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 19, 2012
• Last updated: December 8, 2015
• Start date: October 2010
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: December 2015
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this research is to test programs to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior using motivational messages over a cell phone.

Description:

We want to learn if conceptually-based behavioral interventions for promoting increased physical activity and decreased sedentary behavior via state-of-the-art mobile phones will be efficacious at improving these behaviors relative to commercially available Android applications as a control. If efficacious, these types of intervention programs could be disseminated to a wide variety of sedentary and underactive adults at a relatively low cost. This could have a potentially significant impact on promoting improved health such as reduced obesity, a key problem within the U.S.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 130
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 45 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 45 and older, currently sedentary, owns and uses a cell phone but not a Smartphone, willing to be randomly assigned

Exclusion Criteria:

• free of clinically evident cardiovascular disease or any other medical condition or disorder that would limit participation in moderate intensity physical activities akin to brisk walking

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Mobile Intervention for Lifestyle Eating/Exercise @ Stanford
Participants are randomized to one of 4 groups, each of which uses a different Smartphone app to promote health behavior change

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Stanford Prevention Research Center	Palo Alto	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time spent being physically active		2 months	No
Primary	Time spent sitting		2 months	No
Primary	Changes in food consumption		2 months	No
Secondary	Beliefs and behaviors about Smartphones		2 months	No
Secondary	Beliefs and behaviors about the Smartphone application		2 months	No