Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application for Older Adult Health

NCT ID: NCT03629912

Last Updated: 2024-03-12

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 241 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-08-13
• Study Completion Date: 2022-05-13

Brief Summary

This study tests the effectiveness of using a new mobile application (Bingocize®) to improve older adults' (a) adherence to an engaging exercise program, and (b) aspects of functional performance, health knowledge, dietary habits, and cognition.

Detailed Description

Health-promoting interventions designed to improve physical and mental fitness can help reduce health care costs; they can also help maintain, or even improve, older adults' quality of life. However, getting older adults to adhere to health-promoting exercise interventions remains difficult because such programs are often perceived as being time-consuming, painful, or unenjoyable. The present study's objective is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel technological exercise intervention program for older adults (Bingocize); in doing so, the program has the potential to improve older adults' independence and quality of life. Older adults will participate in a pre/post-intervention design with random assignment to either the experimental or one of three comparison/control groups; each group will play Bingocize in a social setting with other older adults. Participants in the experimental group will use the app to engage in twice-weekly Bingocize sessions for twelve weeks (i.e., Bingo+Exercise+Health Education); control groups will also use the app for twelve weeks but for either health education-only, exercise-only, or bingo-only.

Conditions

Activities of Daily Living; Accidental Fall; Sarcopenia; Arteriosclerosis; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Hypertension; Cognitive Decline; Executive Function; Cognitive Aging

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Exercise + Health Education + Bingo

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating exercises AND health information on fall risks + diet/nutrition.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Exercise + Bingo

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating exercises ONLY.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Health Education + Bingo

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults. Participants use the Bingocize app incorporating health information on fall risks + diet/nutrition ONLY.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Bingo Only

Participants use the Bingocize app to play bingo only.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Socially-Based Exercise Intervention for Older Adults

A socially-based app that incorporates exercise and/or health education into a format familiar and engaging to older adults, designed to improve adherence to health-promoting behaviors

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Bingocize

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Normal or corrected normal vision
• Mobility (i.e., not wheelchair bound)
• English is native language
• Minimum physical standards (e.g., ability to walk at least 10 meters)
• No structured physical activity programs >150 minutes/week in last 6 months

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe neurological impairments (e.g., Parkinson's)
• Colorblindness
• Dementia

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Western Kentucky University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Matthew Clinton Shake

Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Matthew C Shake, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Western Kentucky University and Center for Applied Science in Health and Aging

Jason Crandall, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Western Kentucky University and Center for Applied Science in Health and Aging

Locations

Webster County Senior Center

Dixon, Kentucky, United States

Chester County Senior Center

Henderson, Tennessee, United States

Johnson County Senior Center

Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

Scotts Hill Senior Center

Scotts Hill, Tennessee, United States

Countries

United States

References

Kramer JH, Mungas D, Possin KL, Rankin KP, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Bostrom A, Sinha L, Berhel A, Widmeyer M. NIH EXAMINER: conceptualization and development of an executive function battery. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2014 Jan;20(1):11-9. doi: 10.1017/S1355617713001094. Epub 2013 Oct 8.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 24103232 (View on PubMed)

Tinetti ME, Richman D, Powell L. Falls efficacy as a measure of fear of falling. J Gerontol. 1990 Nov;45(6):P239-43. doi: 10.1093/geronj/45.6.p239.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 2229948 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Related Links

http://www.wku.edu/casha

Link to Center for Applied Science in Health \& Aging

Other Identifiers

R15AG055906

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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IRB 18-048

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id