NCT04852042

Digital Health Weight Management Among Public Housing Residents

Digital Health Supported Weight Management Intervention Delivered by Community Health Workers Among Public Housing Residents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 316 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tufts Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research will test the efficacy of a weight management intervention through a three-group randomized trial: mHealth only, mHealth+Community Health Worker (CHW) support, versus control group, among residents of Boston's public housing developments. The mHealth group consists of a 1-year text messaging program to promote diet and physical activity behavior changes and the CHW support consists of monthly phone counseling delivered by a CHW to support the text messaging program. Our hypothesis is that the mHealth+CHW group will be more effective in bringing about weight loss compared to mHealth alone or the assessment only control group. The findings are expected to inform future health promotion efforts among residents in public housing developments.

Conditions

• Weight Change, Body
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mHealth	Participants will receive 2-3 text messages daily. The messages will include information to promote healthy eating and physical activity.
BEHAVIORAL	CHW support	The CHW will provide behavioral counseling to participants guided by a study website related to their healthy eating and physical activity goals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-28
• Primary completion: 2025-08-07
• Completion: 2025-08-11
• First posted: 2021-04-21
• Last updated: 2025-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States