Status:

RECRUITING

A Mobile Phone Text-based Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Engage Communities on the Importance of Healthy Lifestyles: the TEXT2MOVE Study

Lead Sponsor:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Conditions:

Life Style

Healthy Lifestyle

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

To learn if an 8-week, phone-based texting intervention program will reduce sedentary (non-mobile) behavior.

Detailed Description

Primary Objective: To test the effect of two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts, on sedentary behavior in a racially and geographically diverse sample of adults. ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • \>18 years old
  • owns a smart phone
  • has access to WiFi or willing to use mobile data
  • has an email address or willing to create an email address
  • able to read and understand English;
  • able to give informed consent;
  • willing to receive text messages and complete brief questionnaires on their smart phone
  • self-reports sedentary behavior (\> 6 hours/day of sitting time).
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • unwilling to have sedentary behavior and activity tracked
  • unable to walk without ambulatory assistance device (i.e. cane or walker) or due to underlying medical condition
  • MD Anderson employees that report to the Principal Investigators of this study
  • family or household member already enrolled into study
  • not sedentary based on \< 6 hours/day of sitting time, and (6) currently participating in a weight management or exercise study or program

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    January 5 2022

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    October 31 2026

    Estimated Enrollment :

    200 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT05217108

    Start Date

    January 5 2022

    End Date

    October 31 2026

    Last Update

    November 14 2025

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    M D Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, United States, 77030