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NCT Number: NCT07321587

Activity Tracking, Care Partner Co-participation, Text Reminders, Instructional Education, Video-Guided Physical Rehabilitation, and Exercise

This is a multi-methods two-arm, crossover, analyst-blinded randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews, enrolling 50 dyads (older adult-care partner). Participants will receive the ACTIVE intervention, which includes a Fitbit smartwatch, motivational text messages to engage in walking exercise, instructional educational videos, and virtual physical therapy sessions. Intervention components will be delivered over 3 weeks, with continuous monitoring of physical activity via Fitbit data, read receipts of the motivational text messages, and log of engagement in the virtual physical therapy and educational videos.

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Key information

Conditions

Mild Dementia

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

NYU Langone Health

New York, 10016, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Older Adults:

  • Age ≥65 years.
  • With or without mild dementia.
  • Willing to consent to participate in the study or have an LAR that is willing to consent for their participation in the study
  • Willing to wear a Fitbit smartwatch, receive text messages, watch intervention-related videos, participate in physical therapy, and walking exercise.
  • No contraindications to engaging in physical activity.

Care Partners:

  • Age ≥18 years.
  • Met criteria for survey participation.
  • Person being cared for is recruited in the study.
  • Willing to consent to participation
  • Willing to wear a Fitbit smartwatch, receive text messages, watch intervention-related videos, participate in physical therapy, and walking exercise.
  • No contraindications to engaging in physical activity.

Exclusion criteria

Older Adults:

  • Severe cardiac, neurologic, or musculoskeletal condition (including but not limited to recent or untreated fracture in any part of the body)
  • limiting participation in daily walking or Fitbit smartwatch use.
  • Moderate to severe dementia (using the clinical dementia rating scale of 2 or higher
  • Inability to operate or manage a Fitbit smartwatch device (even with care partner support).
  • No phone or phone not capable of receiving text messages or watching videos.
  • No internet for watching videos

Care Partners:

  • Severe cardiac, neurologic, or musculoskeletal condition limiting participation in daily walking or Fitbit smartwatch use.
  • Pregnant care partners
  • Any level of dementia or cognitive impairment among care partners
  • Inability to operate or manage a Fitbit smartwatch device.
  • Inability to co-participate in intervention tasks with older adult
  • No phone or phone not capable of receiving text messages or watching videos.
  • No internet for watching videos

Treatment and study plan

Active intervention

Behavioral

The ACTIVE Intervention comprises the following components:

  • Fitbit Smartwatch-Based Activity Tracking
  • Care Partner Co-Participation
  • Motivational Text Messaging
  • Instructional Education Videos
  • Virtual Physical Therapy
  • Exercise (Walking Exercise)

Primary outcomes

  1. Adoption

    Time frame: Up to Week 7 (End of Week 1 of Intervention Period)

    Measured as the proportion of participants who initiate use of each intervention component:

    • Smartwatch: device activated and worn for ≥3 days during week 1.
    • Text reminders: ≥1 responses to text message opened/read in week 1.
    • Virtual PT videos: at least one session accessed in week 1, which will be tracked online through participant specific username.
    • Instructional education videos: at least one video accessed in week 1,which will be tracked online through participant specific username.

  2. Feasibility: Smartwatch

    Time frame: Up to Week 8

    Measured as sustained engagement with each component during the 3-week intervention:

    • Smartwatch: proportion of days with ≥8 hours of wear time (captured on Fitabase).
    • Text reminders: proportion of responses to text messages (captured on Fitabase) opened or acknowledged.
    • Virtual PT videos: proportion of assigned sessions completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username); feasibility target.
    • Instructional education videos: proportion of assigned videos completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username.

  3. Feasibility: Motivational Texts

    Time frame: Up to Week 8

    Measured as sustained engagement with each component during the 3-week intervention:

    • Text reminders: proportion of responses to text messages (captured on Fitabase) opened or acknowledged.
    • Virtual PT videos: proportion of assigned sessions completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username); feasibility target.
    • Instructional education videos: proportion of assigned videos completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username.

  4. Feasibility: Virtual Physical Therapy

    Time frame: Up to Week 8

    Measured as sustained engagement with each component during the 3-week intervention:

    • Virtual PT videos: proportion of assigned sessions completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username); feasibility target.
    • Instructional education videos: proportion of assigned videos completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username.

  5. Feasibility: Instructional Education Videos

    Time frame: Up to Week 8

    Measured as sustained engagement with each component during the 3-week intervention:

    • Instructional education videos: proportion of assigned videos completed (captured on myACTIVEsteps.com via username.

  6. Acceptability: System Usability Scale (SUS)

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The SUS is a 10-item survey assessing the usability of a system. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-5; the raw score is the sum of responses, which is transformed to a standardized score ranging from 0-100; higher scores indicate greater usability.

  7. Acceptability: Perceived Usefulness (PU): Smartwatch

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived usefulness of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived usefulness.

  8. Acceptability: Perceived Usefulness (PU): Motivational Texts

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived usefulness of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived usefulness.

  9. Acceptability: Perceived Usefulness (PU): Instructional Education Videos

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived usefulness of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived usefulness.

  10. Acceptability: Perceived Usefulness (PU): Virtual Physical Therapy

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived usefulness of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived usefulness.

  11. Acceptability: Perceived Ease-of-Use (PEU): Smartwatch

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PEU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived ease-of-use of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived ease-of-use.

  12. Acceptability: Perceived Ease-of-Use (PEU): Motivational Texts

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PEU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived ease-of-use of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived ease-of-use.

  13. Acceptability: Perceived Ease-of-Use (PEU): Instructional Education Videos

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PEU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived ease-of-use of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived ease-of-use.

  14. Acceptability: Perceived Ease-of-Use (PEU): Virtual Physical Therapy

    Time frame: Up to Week 10

    The PEU survey is a 5-item assessment of perceived ease-of-use of technology. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-7. The score is calculated as the average of responses and ranges from 1-7; higher scores indicate greater perceived ease-of-use.

  15. Intervention Delivery Fidelity

    Time frame: Up to Week 8.

    Proportion of intervention components successfully delivered by study staff.

  16. Participant Fidelity

    Time frame: Up to Week 8.

    Proportion of assigned intervention activities completed, verified via Fitbit logs, video analytics, and message tracking.

  17. Change in Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    FESI-I is a 16-item self-report questionnaire assessing older adults' fear about falling during daily activities. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-4 (not at all to very concerned). The total score is the sum of responses and ranges from 16-64, where higher scores mean more fear and less confidence.

  18. Change in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    The ADL ranks adequacy of performance in the six functions of bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, and feeding. Participants are scored yes/no for independence in each of the six functions. A score of 6 indicates full function, 4 indicates moderate impairment, and 2 or less indicates severe functional impairment.

  19. Change in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    IADL is an 8-item assessment of independence in completing complex tasks. A summary score ranges from 0 (low function, dependent) to 8 (high function, independent) for women and 0 through 5 for men to avoid potential gender bias.

  20. Change in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of Physical Exercise: Knowledge Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    The Knowledge subsection of the KAP survey comprises 20 items assessing knowledge of physical exercise. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-5. The total score is the sum of responses and ranges from 20-100; higher scores indicate greater knowledge.

  21. Change in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of Physical Exercise: Attitude Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    The Attitude subsection of the KAP survey comprises 10 items assessing attitude toward physical exercise. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-5. The total score is the sum of responses and ranges from 10-50; higher scores indicate more positive attitude toward physical exercise.

  22. Change in Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of Physical Exercise: Attitude Score

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    The Practice subsection of the KAP survey comprises 10 items assessing practice of physical exercise. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-5. The total score is the sum of responses and ranges from 10-50; higher scores indicate greater practice of physical exercise.

  23. Change in Short Form - 12 Quality of Life Survey (SF-12)

    Time frame: Baseline, Up to Week 10

    The SF-12 is a 12-item assessment of quality of life. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 1-5. The raw score is the sum of responses; the raw score is converted to a standardized score ranging from 0-100 with a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10. Higher scores indicate greater quality of life.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Oluwaseun Adeyemi, MD, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

980-939-9764

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Activity Tracking, Care Partner Co-participation, Text Reminders, Instructional Education, Video-Guided Physical Rehabilitation, and Exercise (ACTIVE) Intervention Among Older Adults With and Without Mild Dementia

Acronym: ACTIVE

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2027
First posted
Jan 7, 2026
Registry last updated
Jan 28, 2026

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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