NCT04382521

A Text Message Intervention to Promote Health Behaviors in Cardiac Risk Conditions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a randomized pilot trial to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an adaptive text message intervention (TMI) to promote well-being and health behavior adherence in 60 patients with two or more cardiac risk conditions (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or hyperlipidemia).

Detailed description

The investigators have developed an adaptive text message intervention (TMI) that uses participant feedback for individual messages and progress towards health goals to deliver increasingly personalized positive psychology (PP) and health behavior text messages over time. The investigators aim to examine its feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy in a randomized, controlled pilot trial in 60 adults with two or more cardiac risk conditions (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or hyperlipidemia).

Conditions

• Hyperlipemia
• Hypertension
• Type2 Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Text Message Intervention	Participants will undergo a three component intervention consisting of (1) daily, adaptive text messages related to Positive Psychology or health behaviors, (2) twice weekly text messages related to a specific health behavior goal, and (3) three brief check-ins (at baseline, week 4, and week 8 of the intervention) with a study staff member to discuss progress towards health behavior goals. During the brief check-ins, the study staff member will inquire about: (1) medical conditions, (2) adherence gaps, (3) personal health goals (including weight goals), (4) motivation, self-efficacy, and barriers to reaching health goals, (5) preferred activity types (e.g., walking), and (6) sources of sedentary time (e.g., computer, TV). This information will be added to the algorithm for each individual and we will deliver tailored daily text messages for our participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-22
• Primary completion: 2023-04-15
• Completion: 2023-04-15
• First posted: 2020-05-11
• Last updated: 2023-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States