A Mobile Phone Text-based Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Engage Communities on the Importance of Healthy Lifestyles: the TEXT2MOVE Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Life Style
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Enrollment
- 200
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Daily minutes in sedentary behavior based on Fitbit data.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- 5 months ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Daily minutes in sedentary behavior based on Fitbit data.
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year