NCT04812756: Step-2-It

Step-2-It: Feasibility of SMS Technology to Increase Physical Activity

Completed NA Last updated 24 March 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Step-2-It - text messaging program in Health Behavior in 44 participants. Completed in 15 June 2016.

Timeline

15 August 2014

Primary endpoint
15 February 2015

15 June 2016

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	44
Start date	15 August 2014
Primary completion	15 February 2015
Estimated completion	15 June 2016

Drugs / interventions tested

• Step-2-It - text messaging program

Conditions studied

• Health Behavior — all drugs for Health Behavior →

Sponsor

University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford

Who can join

40 and older, female only, with Health Behavior. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Rural women are more likely to be obese and have a higher risk for chronic disease than their non-rural counterparts. Inadequate physical activity (PA) at least in part contributes to this increased risk. Rural women face personal, social and environmental barriers to PA engagement. Interventions promoting walking among rural women have demonstrated success; however, few of these studies use text messaging to promote PA.

Step-2-It was a pilot study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of text-messaging combined with a pedometer to promote PA, specifically walking among English-speaking women, aged 40 and older, living in a rural, northwest Illinois county. There were two components to the 13-week, Step-2-It intervention: (i) participants used the pedometer to track and report their steps via text message daily; and (ii) participants received an informational or motivational text message daily. Enrolled participants completed baseline assessments, received pedometers and two types of automated text messages: motivational messages to encourage walking, and accountability messages to report pedometer steps. Participants engaged in 3, 6, 9, and 12-week follow-ups to download pedometer data, and completed post-intervention assessments at 12 weeks.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Feasibility of promoting physical activity using mHEALTH technology in rural women: the step-2-it study.
   Khare MM, Zimmermann K, Lyons R, Locklin C, et al · · 2021 · cited 4× · PMID 34915900 · DOI 10.1186/s12905-021-01561-5