Overview
To learn if an 8-week, phone-based texting intervention program will reduce sedentary (non-mobile) behavior.
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 who participate in a community-based MD Anderson educational seminar.
• Primary outcome: Daily minutes in sedentary behavior based on Fitbit data.
Secondary Objective: To assess participant engagement with the program and with the educational content delivered via text messaging.
• Secondary outcomes: To assess participant engagement with text messaging platform
- Clicks on links within texts (clicked link vs. did not click link)
- Compliance to FITBIT syncing (complied vs. did not comply)
- Completion of survey material (completed vs. did not complete)
- Responses to interactive texts (texts that ask questions requesting a response; responded vs. did not respond to text)
Exploratory Objective: To determine whether two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts, increases physical activity in a racially and geographically diverse sample of adults who participate in a community-based MD Anderson educational seminar.
• Exploratory Outcome: Daily step count over 8 weeks based on Fitbit data.
Exploratory Objective: To determine whether two text messaging strategies, responsive texts and standard scheduled texts are associated with changes in corresponding patient attitudes as assessed by surveys of exploring sedentary behavior, readiness for exercise change, and physical functioning.
• Exploratory Outcomes: Survey outcomes measured using the SBQ, Stages of Change, and PROMIS surveys.
Eligibility
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.
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