Eat, Play, Sleep: A Text Message Approach to Promoting Health Behaviors for Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers

Eat, Play, Sleep: A Text Message Approach to Promoting Multiple Health Behaviors for Cancer Survivors and Their Informal Caregivers

Health behavior text message content will be delivered daily over 4-weeks to cancer survivor/caregiver dyads.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Neoplasms; Cancer Survivors
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 44
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Arizona
    • Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85719
      • University of Arizona Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria (survivors and caregivers):

1. ≥18 years old
2. have access to a mobile phone with the ability to receive and send text messages
3. English- or Spanish-speaking
4. free of psychiatric or physical disorders that could interfere with participation (e.g., psychosis, delirium)
5. able to give informed consent in English or Spanish

Survivors must also:

1. have been diagnosed with any solid tumor cancer
2. have completed primary curative treatment at least one month prior to enrollment
3. be able to identify a caregiver to enroll in the study with them
4. report difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, and/or sleep hygiene behaviors at screening.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not meet any of the above criteria

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Dietary Quality; Receive daily text messages for promoting dietary quality.	Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep; The Eat, Play, Sleep study will test health promotion text messages developed following guidelines for text message program development, aligned with established recommendations for diet, physical activity, and sleep in cancer survivorship and prevention. Feasibility of text message delivery and acceptability of the text message content related to dietary quality, physical activity, and sleep hygiene health behaviors will be tested in delivery to participants (cancer survivor/caregiver dyads) who indicate difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, or sleep hygiene behaviors.
Experimental: Physical Activity; Receive daily text messages for promoting physical activity.	Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep; The Eat, Play, Sleep study will test health promotion text messages developed following guidelines for text message program development, aligned with established recommendations for diet, physical activity, and sleep in cancer survivorship and prevention. Feasibility of text message delivery and acceptability of the text message content related to dietary quality, physical activity, and sleep hygiene health behaviors will be tested in delivery to participants (cancer survivor/caregiver dyads) who indicate difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, or sleep hygiene behaviors.
Experimental: Sleep Hygiene; Receive daily text messages for promoting sleep hygiene.	Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep; The Eat, Play, Sleep study will test health promotion text messages developed following guidelines for text message program development, aligned with established recommendations for diet, physical activity, and sleep in cancer survivorship and prevention. Feasibility of text message delivery and acceptability of the text message content related to dietary quality, physical activity, and sleep hygiene health behaviors will be tested in delivery to participants (cancer survivor/caregiver dyads) who indicate difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, or sleep hygiene behaviors.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Successful receipt of 95% of text messages sent	4 weeks
Acceptability of text messages measured by self-report 0-4 likert scale of acceptability of each text message, where 5 is greater acceptability	4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Arizona
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Meghan B Skiba, PhD, MS, MPH, RDN, University of Arizona

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 14, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 18, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): December 13, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 22, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 22, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 31, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 23, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 21, 2025
• Last Verified: May 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00004084

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No