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

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Life Style; Healthy Lifestyle
• Interventions: Device: FitBit

• Registration Number: NCT05217108
• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-01-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-01-31
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-01
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-01
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-03
• Primary Completion: 2026-10-31
• Study Completion: 2026-10-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Fit Bit (Study Groups)	FitBit	Participants wear a Fitbit every day for 8 weeks to record the number of steps you take

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Daily minutes in sedentary behavior based on Fitbit data.	through study completion, an average of 1 year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

M D Anderson Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States