Healthy Aging Resources to Thrive (HART)

Launched by KAISER PERMANENTE · Nov 12, 2018

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ClinConnect Summary

Healthy Aging Resources to Thrive (HART) is a two-stage randomized controlled trial (RCT) of adults over age 60 with obesity to determine the efficacy of a novel sitting-reduction intervention and its impact on cardiometabolic risk markers. Participants will be randomized to a 6-month sitting reduction intervention (termed I-STAND) or healthy-living attention control (Stage 1). All participants will be mailed a scale and a blood pressure monitor (to keep) which will be used during the phone-based measurement visits at Baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months. All participants will have phone-based Coac...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: • Self-reported sitting time of 6+ hours per day
• • BMI ≥30 and \<50 kg/m2
• • men and women of all races and ethnicities from anywhere in the KPWA region (state-wide)
• • We will oversample people of color statewide
• • Able to walk one block
• • Able to speak and read English,
• • no self-reported vision limitations, sedentary time, use of an assistive device, able to stand.
• • no cognitive impairment that is perceived by the study staff during phone screening
• • Willingness to wear device (activPAL)
• • Willingness to participate in study for a full year
• • Continuously enrolled at KP for previous 12 months
• • Not on the No Contact list
• • Not previously enrolled in ISTAND or TABS
• • Not currently enrolled in ACT, STOP-FALLS or SMARRT studies
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • unable to speak and read English (phone screen)
• • unable to walk 1 block (with or without assistive devices) (phone screen)
• • self-reported sitting time less than 6 hours per day (phone screen)
• • diagnosis codes indicating hearing loss, dementia or serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder), or a terminal or serious illness (e.g., cancer) in the past 2 years (from the EMR)