Eat, Play, Sleep: A Text Message Approach to Promoting Health Behaviors for Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers

Neoplasms Clinical Trial

Official title:

Eat, Play, Sleep: A Text Message Approach to Promoting Multiple Health Behaviors for Cancer Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06234267
• Other study ID #: STUDY00004084
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 14, 2024
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: University of Arizona
• Contact: Rachel EB Jarrett, MPH
• Phone: 5206260375
• Email: rjarrett[@]email.arizona.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Health behavior text message content will be delivered daily over 4-weeks to cancer survivor/caregiver dyads.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria (survivors and caregivers):

1. =18 years old

2. have access to a mobile phone with the ability to receive and send text messages

3. English- or Spanish-speaking

4. free of psychiatric or physical disorders that could interfere with participation (e.g., psychosis, delirium)

5. able to give informed consent in English or Spanish

Survivors must also:

1. have been diagnosed with any solid tumor cancer

2. have completed primary curative treatment at least one month prior to enrollment

3. be able to identify a caregiver to enroll in the study with them

4. report difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, and/or sleep hygiene behaviors at screening.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not meet any of the above criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer Survivors
• Neoplasms

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Eat, Play, Sleep
The Eat, Play, Sleep study will test health promotion text messages developed following guidelines for text message program development, aligned with established recommendations for diet, physical activity, and sleep in cancer survivorship and prevention. Feasibility of text message delivery and acceptability of the text message content related to dietary quality, physical activity, and sleep hygiene health behaviors will be tested in delivery to participants (cancer survivor/caregiver dyads) who indicate difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, or sleep hygiene behaviors.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Arizona Cancer Center	Tucson	Arizona

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Arizona

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Successful receipt of 95% of text messages sent		4 weeks
Primary	Acceptability of text messages measured by self-report 0-4 likert scale of acceptability of each text message, where 5 is greater acceptability		4 weeks