Evidence-based Text Messages to Target Diet and Physical Activity

NCT05641402 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: NIHR202832
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 148
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This research aims to develop a bank of text messages based on behaviour change techniques targeting specific diet and physical activity behaviours in people with type 2 diabetes

Conditions

Type 2 Diabetes

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Experienced Acceptability of the text messages for people with type 2 diabetes

  Assessed through interviews following receiving the text messages

  3.5 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Anticipated Acceptability

  60 minutes

• Rating of fidelity to intended behaviour change technique

  60 minutes

Study Arms (1)

Experienced acceptability study

OTHER

The final study in this research will involve people with type 2 diabetes receiving the text messages

Other: Text messages

Interventions

Text messages OTHER

Text messages based on behaviour change techniques

Experienced acceptability study

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• \- For focus group
• Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
• Male or female, aged 18 years or above.
• A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
• Has access to a mobile-phone (shared access is allowed with permission of phone owner)
• Able to use a mobile phone, if necessary with help, to send or retrieve brief messages (including text-messages or messaging within smartphone applications).

You may not qualify if:

• Moved out of England prior to taking part in the study
• For the anticipated acceptability survey and experienced acceptability study
• Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study.
• Aged 18 years or above.
• A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
• Has access to a mobile-phone (shared access is allowed with permission of phone owner)
• Able to use a mobile phone, if necessary with help, to send or retrieve brief messages (including text-messages).
• Within three months of a hospital admission for hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia.
• Pregnant or within three months post-partum by self-report
• Underweight (For anticipated acceptability this will be by self-report, for experienced acceptability BMI\<18.5)
• Historical or current diagnosis of an eating disorder Prescribed insulin for their diabetes

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Manchester: lead
• University of Oxford: collaborator
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust: collaborator
• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Manchester

Manchester, M139PL, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Michie S, Richardson M, Johnston M, Abraham C, Francis J, Hardeman W, Eccles MP, Cane J, Wood CE. The behavior change technique taxonomy (v1) of 93 hierarchically clustered techniques: building an international consensus for the reporting of behavior change interventions. Ann Behav Med. 2013 Aug;46(1):81-95. doi: 10.1007/s12160-013-9486-6.

  PMID: 23512568 BACKGROUND

• Bartlett YK, Farmer A, Rea R, French DP. Use of Brief Messages Based on Behavior Change Techniques to Encourage Medication Adherence in People With Type 2 Diabetes: Developmental Studies. J Med Internet Res. 2020 May 13;22(5):e15989. doi: 10.2196/15989.

  PMID: 32401214 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Diabetes Mellitus; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases

Study Officials

• Kiera Bartlett, PhD

  University of Manchester

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 17, 2022
• First Posted: December 7, 2022
• Study Start: July 14, 2022
• Primary Completion: November 23, 2023
• Study Completion: June 30, 2024
• Last Updated: January 20, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Time Frame: By December 2023
• Access Criteria: Dependent on the database chosen

Locations

GB (1)