Make Better Choices

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Health Behavior

In brief

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 individuals monitor and transmit information about their eating and activity remotely to a behavior coach. The proposed trial tests whether MBC2 intervention improves diet and activity more than a stress management control condition, and whether changing multiple health behaviors is best achieved by changing them all at the same time, or one after another.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01249989

Run by

Northwestern University

People needed

212

Starts

2011-11-01

Expected to finish

2015-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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)

Where it is running

• Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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