NCT05151445

The Use of a Consumer-Based mHealth Dietary App and Health Coaching With Kidney Transplant Recipients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to test the feasibility mHealth dietary app + health coaching for improving primary outcomes (recruitment, retention, and adherence) and secondary outcomes (perceived stress \[ Perceived Stress Scale\], exercise self-efficacy\[Exercise Self-efficacy Scale\], vegetable intake \[Fruit, Vegetables, and Fiber Screen\] fat intake \[Lose-it Premium database\], carbohydrate intake \[Lose-it Premium database\], weight, \[Wi-Fi weight scale using the Lose-it Premium database\], and blood pressure \[Wi-Fi blood pressure cuff using the Lose-it Premium database\].

Detailed description

The proposed study seeks to shift the paradigm for promoting diet intake and physical activity using education and self-report to provide a powerful combination of mHealth dietary app and health coaching (set goals, provide ongoing feedback, and self-monitor behaviors). To the investigators knowledge, this is the first time a mHealth dietary app and health coaching intervention has been used in kidney transplant recipients to link real-time data for monitoring dietary intake and physical activity. The long-term goal of this work is to enhance well-being in kidney recipients via lifestyle self-management of care for dietary intake and physical activity to ultimately prevent chronic diseases. The proposed study is important because early weight gain after kidney transplant is associated with adverse effects on the transplanted kidney function resulting in increased health care cost and poor quality of life. Interventions are needed to monitor kidney transplant recipients diet and physical activity in real-time to prevent health decline.

Conditions

• Kidney Transplant
• Kidney Transplant; Complications

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mHealth dietary app + health coaching intervention	The "Lose-It" app will be set up with Gmail accounts with unique unidentifiable codes developed by the research team. Participants be trained to enter their dietary intake and physical activity daily for 12-weeks. Participants will monitor their vegetable intake, fat intake, carbohydrate intake, weight, and blood pressure. Wi-Fi connected weight scales and blood pressure cuff will be supplied for weight and blood pressure monitoring. Participants will be taught how to sync the data from the scales and blood pressure cuff to the app for the research team to access. Participants will perform a return demonstration to confirm that they can record their dietary intake daily, physical activity, weight, and blood pressure using the "Lose-It" app. We also review with the participant the "My Plate" method for proper nutrition and the steps to distance conversion chart.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-01
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2021-12-09
• Last updated: 2024-10-28
• Results posted: 2024-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States