NCT03720327

The Effects of a Mobile Health Intervention and Health Coach Text Messaging on Cardiovascular Risk of Older Adults

Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study, "Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults", will test a mobile-health based intervention which includes use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months, a smartphone application that tracks daily food intake, and one 45 minute counseling session to create personal goals and provide patient education by a health coach; versus Get FIT+ (the same items) plus personalized text messages focusing on participant's activity and nutrition progress as monitored in the app, from the health coach for 3 months. The investigators will measure the impact on participant's diet, physical activity, clinical outcomes, psychosocial well-being, and engagement.

Detailed description

This study, "Fitness Intensive Therapy (Get FIT) to Promote Healthy Living in Older Adults", will test 2 behavioral interventions in community-dwelling older adults (age ≥ 60 years) at intermediate and high risk of cardiovascular disease. 1. Get FIT: use of a Fitbit activity tracker, smartphone application to track daily food intake, one 45 minute counseling session to create personal goals and provide patient education by a health coach; vs. 2. Get FIT+: use of a Fitbit activity tracker, smartphone application to track daily food intake, one 45 minute counseling session to create personal goals and provide patient education by a health coach, and personalized push-only text messages from the health coach based on participant's progress as monitored electronically in the application. Each intervention lasts 3 months, with outcomes measured at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Get FIT	The Get FIT arm includes use of a free commercially available smartphone application to track daily food intake for 3 months; use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months; and one 45 minute behavioral counseling session to set personal goals and provide education by a health coach.
BEHAVIORAL	Get FIT+	The Get FIT+ arm includes use of a free commercially available smartphone application to track daily food intake for 3 months; use of a Fitbit activity tracker for 3 months; one 45 minute behavioral counseling session to set personal goals and provide education by a health coach; and personalized text messaging for 3 months by a health coach. The health coach will have access to these participants' daily food and activity data through the smartphone application, and will monitor progress and send push-only text messages to participants in this group based on the participant's goals and progress in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, and weight loss.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-10
• Primary completion: 2022-03-12
• Completion: 2022-03-12
• First posted: 2018-10-25
• Last updated: 2022-11-18

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States