A Mobile Phone Text-based Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Engage Communities on the Importance of Healthy Lifestyles: the TEXT2MOVE Study

Healthy Lifestyle Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Mobile Phone Text-based Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Engage Communities on the Importance of Healthy Lifestyles: the TEXT2MOVE Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05217108
• Other study ID #: 2021-1014
• Secondary ID: NCI-2022-00101
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 5, 2022
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Contact: Karen Basen-Engquist, MD
• Phone: (713) 745-3123
• Email: kbasenen[@]mdanderson.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To learn if an 8-week, phone-based texting intervention program will reduce sedentary (non-mobile) behavior.

Description:

Primary Objective: To test the effect of two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts, on sedentary behavior in a racially and geographically diverse sample of adults. Secondary Objective: To assess participant engagement with the program and with the educational content delivered via text messaging. Exploratory Objective: To determine whether two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts, increases physical activity in a racially and geographically diverse sample of adults. Exploratory Objective: To determine whether two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts are associated with changes in corresponding patient attitudes as assessed by surveys of exploring sedentary behavior, readiness for exercise change, and physical functioning.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: October 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

1. >18 years old;

2. owns a smart phone;

3. has access to WiFi or willing to use mobile data;

4. has an email address or willing to create an email address;

5. able to read and understand English;

6. able to give informed consent;

7. willing to receive text messages and complete brief questionnaires on their smart phone.

8. self-reports sedentary behavior (> 6 hours/day of sitting time).

Exclusion criteria:

1. unwilling to have sedentary behavior and activity tracked

2. unable to walk without ambulatory assistance device (i.e. cane or walker) or due to underlying medical condition

3. MD Anderson employees that report to the Principal Investigators of this study

4. not sedentary based on < 6 hours/day of sitting time.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Lifestyle
• Life Style

Intervention

Device:
• FitBit
All participants in each study group will receive a Fitbit. Participants will be asked to wear a Fitbit every day for 8 weeks to record the number of steps you take

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	M D Anderson Cancer Center	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Daily minutes in sedentary behavior based on Fitbit data.		through study completion, an average of 1 year

External Links

•   M D Anderson Cancer Center