NCT03629912

Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application for Older Adult Health

Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application to Help Maintain or Improve Older Adults' Health, Function, and Cognition

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 241 (actual)
• Sponsor: Western Kentucky University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study tests the effectiveness of using a new mobile application (Bingocize®) to improve older adults' (a) adherence to an engaging exercise program, and (b) aspects of functional performance, health knowledge, dietary habits, and cognition.

Detailed description

Health-promoting interventions designed to improve physical and mental fitness can help reduce health care costs; they can also help maintain, or even improve, older adults' quality of life. However, getting older adults to adhere to health-promoting exercise interventions remains difficult because such programs are often perceived as being time-consuming, painful, or unenjoyable. The present study's objective is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel technological exercise intervention program for older adults (Bingocize); in doing so, the program has the potential to improve older adults' independence and quality of life. Older adults will participate in a pre/post-intervention design with random assignment to either the experimental or one of three comparison/control groups; each group will play Bingocize in a social setting with other older adults. Participants in the experimental group will use the app to engage in twice-weekly Bingocize sessions for twelve weeks (i.e., Bingo+Exercise+Health Education); control groups will also use the app for twelve weeks but for either health education-only, exercise-only, or bingo-only.

Conditions

• Activities of Daily Living
• Accidental Fall
• Sarcopenia
• Arteriosclerosis
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Hypertension
• Cognitive Decline
• Executive Function
• Cognitive Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults	A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-13
• Primary completion: 2022-05-13
• Completion: 2022-05-13
• First posted: 2018-08-14
• Last updated: 2024-03-12
• Results posted: 2024-03-12

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States