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Sponsored by: |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
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Information provided by: | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00729040 |
The purpose of this study is to determine whether online peer support will increase adherence to an internet-based pedometer walking program.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Type 2 Diabetes Coronary Artery Disease Obesity |
Behavioral: Stepping Up to Health |
Phase I Phase II |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Enhancing Adherence to an Internet-Mediated Walking Program by Building Online Communities |
Enrollment: | 324 |
Study Start Date: | January 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | January 2009 |
Primary Completion Date: | October 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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1: Active Comparator
Stepping Up to Health only
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Behavioral: Stepping Up to Health
Internet-mediated walking program with pedometers, goal-setting and tailored messaging
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2: Experimental
Stepping up to Health PLUS online message boards to talk with other participants
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Behavioral: Stepping Up to Health
Internet-mediated walking program with pedometers, goal-setting and tailored messaging
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Stepping Up to Health with eCommunities is a study that takes what we already know about motivating sedentary, chronically ill people to walk, and begins to explore what it takes to keep people motivated to exercise over time: the ability to self-monitor behavior with accurate ecological momentary assessments.
We have theorized that peer support, monitoring and competition are ways in which people can stay motivated to meet their walking goals; thus, we have built into this intervention online forums for participants to communicate with each other and garner support, as well as a pilot one-to-many competitive game based on the percent of an individual's goal met.
Our research question is whether online community participation can increase adherence to an Internet-mediated walking program, which consists of an uploading pedometer, and going to a website to receive graphical and textual feedback as to whether participants are meeting gradually increasing walking goals. Three hundred participants will spend four months in this randomized, controlled trial to compare the intervention alone to the intervention plus online community support.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Responsible Party: | University of Michigan Health System Dept. of Family Medicine ( Caroline Richardson, MD ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 57408 |
Study First Received: | August 1, 2008 |
Last Updated: | January 27, 2009 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00729040 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
heart weight Overweight bmi diabetes type 2 diabetic walk |
walk* diab* obese exercise activity coronary pedometer |
Arterial Occlusive Diseases Obesity Metabolic Diseases Heart Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Diabetes Mellitus Vascular Diseases Endocrine System Diseases Overweight Ischemia Arteriosclerosis |
Coronary Disease Body Weight Signs and Symptoms Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Nutrition Disorders Overnutrition Endocrinopathy Glucose Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Disorder Coronary Artery Disease |
Arterial Occlusive Diseases Obesity Heart Diseases Metabolic Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Vascular Diseases Diabetes Mellitus Endocrine System Diseases Overweight Arteriosclerosis |
Body Weight Coronary Disease Signs and Symptoms Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Nutrition Disorders Overnutrition Cardiovascular Diseases Glucose Metabolism Disorders Coronary Artery Disease |