Promoting Healthy Lifestyles Using Mobile Phones
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Health Behavior
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Enrollment
- 130
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Time spent being physically active
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 10 years ago
Overview
Brief 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.
Detailed 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.
Investigators
Abby C King
Professor
Stanford University
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Time spent being physically active
Time Frame: 2 months
Time spent sitting
Time Frame: 2 months
Changes in food consumption
Time Frame: 2 months
Secondary Outcomes
- Beliefs and behaviors about the Smartphone application(2 months)
- Beliefs and behaviors about Smartphones(2 months)