Pilot Evaluation of an Interactive Health Game

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT03444129
• Collaborator: National Institute on Aging (NIA) (NIH)
• Enrollment: 30
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 4.3
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 7

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Broad, diverse, and innovative efforts are needed to address the growing dual public health challenges of obesity and diabetes, especially for those at increased risk like minority older adults. The emerging field of health games offers an innovative opportunity to reach populations to provide healthy eating and physical activity messages. Little research has focused on the use of health games specifically tailored for older adults. This study builds upon a health game designed to provide knowledge, facilitate movement, enhance motivation, and encourage healthy eating (HE) and physical activity (PA) behaviors in youth. This study will adapt, implement, and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, adherence, and preliminary outcomes of the game among overweight/obese African American older adults.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Health Behavior; Health Attitude	Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop and interactive health game; Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 30 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Pilot Evaluation of an Interactive Health Game Designed to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity on Older Adults.
• Actual Study Start Date: Jan 20, 2018
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Mar 10, 2018
• Actual Study Completion Date: May 31, 2018

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Control This group will participate in a health education workshop with weekly sessions (control group)	Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop; The intervention sessions will be weekly for 6 weeks and will involve participation in health education workshop. Sessions may last up to 2 hours and will be held at designated times/days at a Chicago Church.
Experimental: Game This group will participate in the health education workshop plus the interactive health game (intervention group).	Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop and interactive health game; The intervention sessions will be weekly for 6 weeks and will involve participation in health education workshop and interactive health game. Sessions may last up to 2 hours and will be held at designated times/days at a Chicago Church.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Eating habits [6 weeks]

   Eating habits will be assessed using the Visually-Enhanced Food Behavior Checklist.

2. Physical activity patterns [6 weeks]

   Physical activity patterns will be assessed using the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).

3. Motivation [6 weeks]

   Behavioral motivation questions will include Stage of change and confidence items to assess motivation (i.e., readiness) or achievement of behavioral goals.

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Weight [6 weeks]

   Weight will be measured using a digital scale

2. Adherence [6 weeks]

   Adherence will be measured by a count of the sessions attended.

3. Short International Physical Activity Questionnaire [6 weeks]

   Acceptability will be measured using this survey

4. MPP Acceptability Survey [6 weeks]

   This survey is about the participants experiences using MyPlatePicks (MPP) game

5. MPP stages of change survey [6 week s]

   acceptability will be measured using this survey

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 50 Years to 65 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 50 and 65 years

• Overweight or obese (25kg/m2 ≤ BMI < 40kg/m2)

• African American/Black by self-report

• Risk factors for diabetes (based on adapted ADA risk test)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adults with cognitive impairments, based on the adapted Mental Status Questionnaire (MSQ).

• Health conditions that preclude participation in physical activity program, based on the Exercise Assessment and Screener for You (EASY) physical activity screener.

• Already diagnosed with diabetes by self-report

• Currently engaging in vigorous physical activity

• Non-English speaking

• Does not meet inclusion criteria

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	Illinois	United States	60608

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Amparo Castillo, PhD, UIC
• Principal Investigator: Laurie Ruggiero, PhD, University of Delaware

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Amparo Castillo, Training and Research Coordinator, University of Illinois at Chicago
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03444129
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2016-0218; 5P30AG022849
• First Posted: Feb 23, 2018
• Last Update Posted: Apr 16, 2020
• Last Verified: Feb 1, 2018

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: No
• Plan to Share IPD: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 16, 2020