Enhancing Adherence by Building Online Communities

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1/PHASE2

Total Enrollment

324 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-01-31

Study Completion Date

2009-01-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether online peer support will increase adherence to an internet-based pedometer walking program.

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Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Type 2 Diabetes Coronary Artery Disease Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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1

Stepping Up to Health only

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Stepping Up to Health

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Internet-mediated walking program with pedometers, goal-setting and tailored messaging

2

Stepping up to Health PLUS online message boards to talk with other participants

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Stepping Up to Health

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Internet-mediated walking program with pedometers, goal-setting and tailored messaging

Interventions

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Stepping Up to Health

Internet-mediated walking program with pedometers, goal-setting and tailored messaging

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Must have one or more of the following: Coronary artery disease (CAD); BMI 25 or higher; Type 2 diabetes
* Must be sedentary, defined by less than 150 minutes of self-reported activity per week
* Must be 18 or older
* Must have access to a computer with an Internet connection, a USB port, and Windows 2000 (latest service pack), XP or Vista
* Must be a regular email user (checking weekly)
* Must be able to communicate in English

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnant
* Cannot walk a block (self-report)
* Not competent to sign consent
* Unable to obtain medical clearance from a treating physician (primary care, cardiologist, endocrinologist)
* Type 1 diabetes

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No