Phone-based physical activity program for low-income older adults, looking at thinking and sleep
Tests a mobile health exercise program for thinking and sleep in low-income older adults.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Johns Hopkins University
- Where
- Baltimore, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- mPATH for Low-income Older Adults
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 176 people, planned
- Started
- 30 May 2024
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- mPATH
- Attention Control
- Record updated
- 13 April 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for older adults with low household income who have trouble sleeping and do little physical activity. It tests a home exercise program supported by phone coaching and wearable devices.
- Age
- 65 Years and older
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Self-reported difficulty sleeping and lack of physical activity or exercise. People must be able to do moderate intensity exercise.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Sleep apnea (breathing stops during sleep) that is not treated
- Severe depression or anxiety
- Dementia
- History of neurologic or psychiatric disorders, neurodevelopmental impairment or traumatic brain injury
- Currently taking part in another clinical trial
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- self-reported difficulty of sleep
- lack of physical activity/exercise
- low household income
- capacity for moderate intensity exercise
Who cannot take part
- dementia
- history of neurologic or psychiatric disorders, neurodevelopmental impairment, traumatic brain injury
- untreated sleep apnea
- severe depression or anxiety
- current enrollment in another clinical trial
Where in United States
- The Johns Hopkins University, School of NursingBaltimore, United StatesContact: Junxin LiTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Although empirical research suggests that physical activity interventions benefit cognition and sleep in older adults in general, the possible benefit of physical activity is understudied in low-income older adults. The study aims to test the immediate and sustaining efficacy of an mHealth-facilitated Physical Activity Toward Health (mPATH) intervention on cognitive function and sleep in low-income older adults.
The 2 groups in the trial
- mPATHTreatment being tested
mPATH is a personalized physical activity intervention that includes personalized physical activity plans and training sessions, exercise at home by following personalized exercise videos, and biweekly phone coaching over 24 weeks, supported by wearable devices-enabled mHealth strategies. mHealth strategies and exercise videos will be used to support participant's physical activity during 6-12months
- Education and Social controlExisting treatment, for comparison
This attention control group is designed to match the intervention for mPATH's staff-subject interaction duration through monthly home visits in the first 6 months
Treatment: Attention Control
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- mHealth-Facilitated Physical Activity Toward Health (mPATH) Intervention for Low-Income Older Adults
- Plain-language title
- Phone-based physical activity program for low-income older adults, looking at thinking and sleepGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 13 April 2026