A Mobile Intervention Merging Yoga and Self-Management Skills (MYSkillsMobile)

A Mobile Intervention Merging Yoga and Self-Management Skills (MY-Skills Mobile) for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions and Their Care-Partners

Chronic disease self-management interventions and meditative movement approaches (.e.g., yoga) can independently improve depressive symptoms. However, to our knowledge there are no interventions integrating evidence-based chronic disease management strategies with yoga to maximize physical, psychological or social outcomes, nor are mobile health platforms commonly used to improve the reach of these integrated interventions. Therefore, we developed Merging-Yoga for Self-Management Skills Mobile (MY-Skills Mobile). Our first aim is to adapt the MY-Skills Mobile to tailor the intervention to older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) by convening a panel of patient and care-partner stakeholders. We will convene four patient and care-partner dyads (N=8) to serve as study partners for three longitudinal focus groups to suggest and review MY-Skills Mobile adaptations. We will then conduct a usability study of MY-Skills Mobile with older adults with MCC and their care-partners. We will conduct two waves of rapid-cycle prototyping with 5 dyads in each wave (N=20). Dyads will participate in MY-Skills Mobile modules. We will then use acceptability surveys and use data in each wave to iteratively adapt MY-Skills Mobile to optimize usability and acceptability.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Chronic Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: MY-Skills Mobile

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

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • University of Colorado

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 65 years and older (Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) and Depressive Symptoms:

• over the age of 65 at time of recruitment
• Multiple chronic conditions: Bayliss Disease Burden/Morbidity Assessment by Self-Report diagnosis > 2 and a disease burden score >2 indicating the presence of at least two chronic conditions that limit activities of daily of living.
• Presence of depressive symptoms will be screened by the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 Scale (PHQ-2), with a score of > 3 indicating at least mild depressive symptoms.
• Participants must be community dwelling
• Live in the United States
• Speak English
• Participants must be able to provide informed consent and have the ability to stand with or without an assistive device.
• We will also use the Patient Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) to determine the safety or possible risk of participation.

Care-Partners:

• Care-partners include any family, friend, or social support that the older adult identifies
• at least age 18
• Can provide informed consent
• Participants must be able to provide informed consent and have the ability to stand with or without an assistive device.
• We will also use the Patient Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) to determine the safety or possible risk of participation.

Exclusion Criteria for Older Adults with MCC and Care-Partners:

• Self-reported diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or dementia
• Self-reported diagnosis of a severe mental health problem (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychotic illness)
• Consistent yoga >120 minutes a week
• Completed self-management education in the last year

Participants will not be excluded due to limited technology access. We will provide temporary tablets and mobile hotspot connectivity to interested participants that do not have hardware or internet access.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: MY-Skills Mobile Intervention; MY-Skills Mobile is an 8-week intervention merging yoga and self-management offered via remote tools including Zoom (video-conferencing software), Canvas (education software), and Qualtrics (survey software) that can be accessed via a computer or tablet. The self-management content is delivered primarily through asynchronous tools that include educational videos and interactive activities for goal setting, action plan, monitoring goals, and problem-solving practice. Yoga is offered synchronously via Zoom two-times per week for 60 minutes (120 minutes per week). The synchronous yoga sessions will be offered at a time that best accommodates participants' schedules. Yoga will become progressively challenging over the eight weeks and will include seated and standing postures.

Behavioral: MY-Skills Mobile; Yoga and Self-Management Education

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
User Mobile Application Rating Scale	Usability; 20 items; Range 0-25, Higher score indicates better usability	8 Weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Patient Health Questionaire-8	Depressive Symptoms; 8 items; Range 0-24; Higher score indicates worse depression	8 weeks
PROMIS Physical Function	Physical Function; 20 items with 4 additional global items; Range 0-120; Higher scores indicate better function	8 weeks
PROMIS Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Conditions	Self-Efficacy; 24 items; Range 0-120; Higher scores indicate better self-efficacy	8 weeks
PROMIS Companionship, Emotional, Instrumental Support	Social Support; 14 items, Range 0-70; Higher scores indicate better social support	8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
• Collaborators: University of Southern California; Colorado State University; Clemson University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jennifer Portz, PhD, MSW, University of Colorado, Denver

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): June 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 11, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 12, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): February 17, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): December 12, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 8, 2022
• Last Verified: December 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Chronic Disease
• Other Study ID Numbers: 21-2632

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

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