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RCT of Sensor-controlled Digital Game for Hypertension Self-care in a Native American Community
Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin
Summary
This study evaluates a sensor-controlled digital game (SCDG) to motivate self-management behaviors of physical activity in Native American adults with hypertension (HTN). Half of the participants will receive the SCDG app and physical activity sensors and the other half will receive only the physical activity sensors. Native American participants with hypertension (HTN) in the sensor controlled digital game intervention group will show increased PA behaviors; improved HTN knowledge, self-care behaviors, self-efficacy, motivation, and quality of life (QoL); and larger reduction in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and cardiac hospitalizations at baseline,3 months, and 6 months as compared to participants in the sensor-only control group.
Official title: A Sensor-controlled Digital Game-based Approach to Improve Self-care Behaviors Among Adults Diagnosed With Hypertension in a Native American Community
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
220
Start Date
2024-06-27
Completion Date
2027-03-31
Last Updated
2026-01-21
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Sensor-controlled digital game
The SCDG will involve a narrative, the goal of which is to help an avatar in the game avoid hospitalization by using game points, earned via the participant's real-time behaviors, in game tasks that help maintain the avatar's optimal Hypertension health status. Real-time behaviors of weight-monitoring and physical activity will be tracked by an off-the-shelf sensors and app (Withings). The data from the Withings sensors will then be routed to our SCDG app. The digital game paired with sensors will enable objective tracking of real-time behaviors such as physical activity, and weight monitoring, and provide personalized, contextually relevant feedback to motivate engagement in and generate habit formation of heart failure related self-management behaviors.
Sensor only
Real-time behaviors of physical activity will be tracked by an off-the-shelf sensor and app (Withings). This group will also be provided with standardized evidence-based Hypertension educational material. However, the data from the Withings sensor will not be routed to the SCDG.
Locations (1)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States