Clinical trial NCT03629912: Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application for Older Adult Health
Official title: Bingocize: A Novel Mobile Application to Help Maintain or Improve Older Adults' Health, Function, and Cognition
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Activities of Daily Living
Accidental Fall
Sarcopenia
Arteriosclerosis
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Hypertension
Cognitive Decline
Executive Function
Cognitive Aging
Lead sponsor: Western Kentucky University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2018-08-14
Enrollment: 241
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 60
Maximum age (years): 85
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: In each wave of the study (14 weeks per wave), participant groups are randomly assigned to one of four conditions (A,B,C,D). Condition A receives exercise + health education. Condition B receives exercise only. Condition C receives health education only. Condition D receives nothing.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study tests the effectiveness of using a new mobile application (Bingocize®) to improve older adults' (a) adherence to an engaging exercise program, and (b) aspects of functional performance, health knowledge, dietary habits, and cognition.

Detailed description: Health-promoting interventions designed to improve physical and mental fitness can help reduce health care costs; they can also help maintain, or even improve, older adults' quality of life. However, getting older adults to adhere to health-promoting exercise interventions remains difficult because such programs are often perceived as being time-consuming, painful, or unenjoyable. The present study's objective is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel technological exercise intervention program for older adults (Bingocize); in doing so, the program has the potential to improve older adults' independence and quality of life. Older adults will participate in a pre/post-intervention design with random assignment to either the experimental or one of three comparison/control groups; each group will play Bingocize in a social setting with other older adults. Participants in the experimental group will use the app to engage in twice-weekly Bingocize sessions for twelve weeks (i.e., Bingo+Exercise+Health Education); control groups will also use the app for twelve weeks but for either health education-only, exercise-only, or bingo-only.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Normal or corrected normal vision
* Mobility (i.e., not wheelchair bound)
* English is native language
* Minimum physical standards (e.g., ability to walk at least 10 meters)
* No structured physical activity programs \>150 minutes/week in last 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Severe neurological impairments (e.g., Parkinson's)
* Colorblindness
* Dementia

Primary outcomes:
measure: Executive Function Inhibition Measure 1: Flanker Task
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Executive Function Measure: Updating Verbal Working Memory
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Executive Function Measure: Set Shifting Task
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Executive Function Measure: Verbal Fluency
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Chair Stands: Change in Lower-body Muscular Strength
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Change in Dynamic Balance: 360 Degree Turns
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Executive Function Measure of Inhibition: Continuous Performance Test
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Timed Up and Go (TUG) Test: Change in Dynamic Balance
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Crystallized Knowledge of Fall Risks and Proper Diet/Nutrition
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Grip Strength: Changes in Upper Body Muscular Strength
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Fall Efficacy Scale
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Changes in Dietary Habits: Total Added Sugar Intake
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Changes in Quality of Life
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Changes in Weight
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Systolic Blood Pressure
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
measure: Diastolic Blood Pressure
timeFrame: Baseline and 12 Weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dixon
country: United States
facility: Webster County Senior Center
state: Kentucky
city: Henderson
country: United States
facility: Chester County Senior Center
state: Tennessee
city: Johnson City
country: United States
facility: Johnson County Senior Center
state: Tennessee
city: Scotts Hill
country: United States
facility: Scotts Hill Senior Center
state: Tennessee
Study officials:
affiliation: Western Kentucky University and Center for Applied Science in Health and Aging
name: Matthew C Shake, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Western Kentucky University and Center for Applied Science in Health and Aging
name: Jason Crandall, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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