Actively Recruiting
Activity Tracking, Care Partner Co-participation, Text Reminders, Instructional Education, Video-Guided Physical Rehabilitation, and Exercise
Led by NYU Langone Health · Updated on 2026-01-28
100
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
96 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This is a multi-methods two-arm, crossover, analyst-blinded randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews, enrolling 50 dyads (older adult-care partner). Participants will receive the ACTIVE intervention, which includes a Fitbit smartwatch, motivational text messages to engage in walking exercise, instructional educational videos, and virtual physical therapy sessions. Intervention components will be delivered over 3 weeks, with continuous monitoring of physical activity via Fitbit data, read receipts of the motivational text messages, and log of engagement in the virtual physical therapy and educational videos.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Activity Tracking, Care Partner Co-participation, Text Reminders, Instructional Education, Video-Guided Physical Rehabilitation, and Exercise
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Older adults aged 65 years or older
- Older adults with or without mild dementia
- Older adults willing to consent or have a legal representative consent for them
- Older adults willing to wear a Fitbit smartwatch, receive texts, watch videos, participate in physical therapy, and walk
- Older adults with no contraindications to physical activity
- Care partners aged 18 years or older
- Care partners meeting survey participation criteria
- Care partners whose person being cared for is enrolled in the study
- Care partners willing to consent to participate
- Care partners willing to wear a Fitbit smartwatch, receive texts, watch videos, participate in physical therapy, and walk
- Care partners with no contraindications to physical activity
You will not qualify if you...
- Older adults with severe cardiac, neurologic, or musculoskeletal conditions limiting walking or Fitbit use
- Older adults with moderate to severe dementia (clinical dementia rating scale 2 or higher)
- Older adults unable to operate or manage a Fitbit smartwatch even with help
- Older adults without a phone or with a phone unable to receive texts or watch videos
- Older adults without internet access to watch videos
- Care partners with severe cardiac, neurologic, or musculoskeletal conditions limiting walking or Fitbit use
- Pregnant care partners
- Care partners with any level of dementia or cognitive impairment
- Care partners unable to operate or manage a Fitbit smartwatch
- Care partners unable to co-participate in intervention tasks with the older adult
- Care partners without a phone or with a phone unable to receive texts or watch videos
- Care partners without internet access to watch videos
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, United States, 10016
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Research Team
O
Oluwaseun Adeyemi, MD, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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