Status:
COMPLETED
Make Better Choices
Lead Sponsor:
Northwestern University
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Conditions:
Health Behavior
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The average adult has a poor quality diet and sedentary lifestyle, but the best way to produce sustained healthy change remains unknown. The MBC2 intervention uses handheld technology to help individu...
Detailed Description
Poor quality diet and physical inactivity are the most prevalent, preventable causes of death in the United States. In particular, high saturated fat diet (Fat), low fruit and vegetable intake (FV), l...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Participants must expect to reside in the Chicagoland area for the next 9 months
- Must be willing to record diet, sedentary activities, and/or stress and sleep and wear an accelerometer for 12 weeks and intermittently thereafter for the next 9-months
- Must agree to make changes in eating and activity or in sleep and relaxation behaviors
- Participants must report all of the following on screening questionnaires:
- Low fiber diet (\< 9 FV servings/day)
- High saturated fat intake (\> 8% of daily calories from fat)
- Less than 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity physical activity per week for the past 3 months (or less than 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity per week)
- An average of \> 120 minutes/day spent on non-work, non-education related use of the following recreational sedentary pastimes: television, videos/movies, videogames, and computer use
Exclusion
- Unstable medical conditions (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, recent myocardial infarction)
- Physician approval for those with existing and controlled medication conditions
- Those that require an assistive device for ambulation
- \> 350 lbs
- Currently taking weight loss medications
- Psychiatric hospitalization in past 5 years
- Those at risk for adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) events with moderate intensity activity (e.g., CVD symptoms while walking, those scheduled for cardiac stress test within 2 months)
- Those who cannot read English sufficiently to respond to self-report questionnaires
- Current or anticipated pregnancy
- Women who are lactating
- Current active eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia)
- Current substance abuse or dependence (other than nicotine)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
212 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01249989
Start Date
November 1 2011
End Date
March 1 2015
Last Update
June 12 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611