Pilot Evaluation of an Interactive Health Game

Pilot Evaluation of an Interactive Health Game Designed to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity on Older Adults.

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Attitude; Health Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop; Behavioral: Healthy eating workshop and interactive health game

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608
      • University of Illinois at Chicago

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 50 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Eating habits	Eating habits will be assessed using the Visually-Enhanced Food Behavior Checklist.	6 weeks
Physical activity patterns	Physical activity patterns will be assessed using the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).	6 weeks
Motivation	Behavioral motivation questions will include Stage of change and confidence items to assess motivation (i.e., readiness) or achievement of behavioral goals.	6 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Weight	Weight will be measured using a digital scale	6 weeks
Adherence	Adherence will be measured by a count of the sessions attended.	6 weeks
Short International Physical Activity Questionnaire	Acceptability will be measured using this survey	6 weeks
MPP Acceptability Survey	This survey is about the participants experiences using MyPlatePicks (MPP) game	6 weeks
MPP stages of change survey	acceptability will be measured using this survey	6 week s

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Collaborators: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Amparo Castillo, PhD, UIC; Principal Investigator: Laurie Ruggiero, PhD, University of Delaware

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 20, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 10, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 15, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 21, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): February 23, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 16, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 14, 2020
• Last Verified: February 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2016-0218; 5P30AG022849 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No