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

NCT06234267 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00004084
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 44
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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

Conditions

Cancer Survivors; Neoplasms

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• 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

Study Arms (3)

Dietary Quality

EXPERIMENTAL

Receive daily text messages for promoting dietary quality.

Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep

Physical Activity

EXPERIMENTAL

Receive daily text messages for promoting physical activity.

Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep

Sleep Hygiene

EXPERIMENTAL

Receive daily text messages for promoting sleep hygiene.

Behavioral: Eat, Play, Sleep

Interventions

Eat, Play, Sleep BEHAVIORAL

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.

Dietary Quality; Physical Activity; Sleep Hygiene

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• ≥18 years old
• have access to a mobile phone with the ability to receive and send text messages
• English- or Spanish-speaking
• free of psychiatric or physical disorders that could interfere with participation (e.g., psychosis, delirium)
• able to give informed consent in English or Spanish
• Survivors must also:
• have been diagnosed with any solid tumor cancer
• have completed primary curative treatment at least one month prior to enrollment
• be able to identify a caregiver to enroll in the study with them
• report difficulty engaging in dietary quality, physical activity, and/or sleep hygiene behaviors at screening.

You may not qualify if:

• Does not meet any of the above criteria

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Arizona: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Arizona Cancer Center

Tucson, Arizona, 85719, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Interventions

Eating; Sleep

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Diet, Food, and Nutrition; Physiological Phenomena; Digestive System Physiological Phenomena; Digestive System and Oral Physiological Phenomena; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Meghan B Skiba, PhD, MS, MPH, RDN

  University of Arizona

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 22, 2024
• First Posted: January 31, 2024
• Study Start: May 14, 2024
• Primary Completion: November 18, 2024
• Study Completion: December 13, 2024
• Last Updated: May 23, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)