NCT06745180

Making Healthy Habits Stick

Making Healthy Habits Stick: Extended Contact Interventions to Promote Long-Term Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 260 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Tennessee · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this project is to help increase physical activity maintenance in cancer survivors.

Detailed description

The purpose of the study is to evaluate novel interventions designed to assist women cancer survivors, who identify as African American or Black, in overcoming exercise barriers, developing a physically active mindset, and establishing exercise habits needed to exercise long term. These novel interventions are 1. Text Messaging (SMS), 2. Peer Coaching, 3. Combination of Peer Coaching and SMS, 4. Usual Care

Conditions

• Cancer
• Physical Activity
• Cancer Survivor
• Cancer Survivorship

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Short Message System (SMS)	The Short Message System (SMS) intervention focuses on personalized, adaptive SMS messages that help the participant maintain physical activity behaviors.
BEHAVIORAL	Peer Coach	The peer coach will deliver an intervention that will help participants maintain physical activity.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual Care	Participants will be given written materials providing advice on maintaining their physical activity.
BEHAVIORAL	Peer Coach and SMS	The Short Message System (SMS) intervention focuses on personalized, adaptive SMS messages that help the participant maintain physical activity behaviors. The peer coach will deliver an intervention that will help participants maintain physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-27
• Primary completion: 2028-03-31
• Completion: 2028-03-31
• First posted: 2024-12-20
• Last updated: 2025-10-01

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States