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Cardiovascular HealthMHC3NCT04183010

MyHeart Counts: Stanford Mobile Cardiovascular Health Study 3.0

A study testing Physical activity coaching in people with Cardiovascular Health, run by Stanford University at 1 site in United States.

Withdrawn

Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

MyHeart Counts is a smartphone-based mobile cardiovascular health research study. It will use the mobile health capabilities of smartphones and wearables to assess daily activity measures of the general public and compare these to measures of cardiovascular health - risk factors and fitness. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Cardiovascular Health
What is being tested?
Physical activity coaching
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
1 Jan 2023to 1 Jan 2026
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age 18+
  • Daily access to smartphone (iPhone or Android)
  • Living in the US during the duration of the study
  • Ability to understand written English

Who cannot join

  • International participants
  • Children (under 18)

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Stanford University

    Stanford, California, 94305

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About this study

MyHeart Counts is a smartphone-based mobile cardiovascular health research study. It will use the mobile health capabilities of smartphones and wearables to assess daily activity measures of the general public and compare these to measures of cardiovascular health - risk factors and fitness. How people divide their time among exercise, sedentary behavior, and sleep all affect cardiovascular health, yet largely go unmeasured. These can now be measured with sensors in phones or wearable devices as we have shown on iOS. With the large number of smartphone users addressable with a HIPAA complaint iOS \& Android platform, the investigators aim to collect activity and cardiovascular health data on many more subjects than in prior studies as well as provide much more quantitative data on type, duration, and intensity of daily activities. It also provides a platform to investigate methods to help participants increase heart-healthy activities. The study also includes a randomized controlled trial on physical activity. The overall goal is to develop an extensive source of data to help inform future cardiovascular health guidelines.

Read the detailed description

The MyHeart Counts research study was designed by Stanford faculty. MyHeart Counts 3.0 will run using the MyStudies Platform, originally commissioned by the FDA, which is currently undergoing technical development to be able to run on the Google Cloud. It includes servers used to set up the study and collect study data, as well as features that produce both iOS and Android study applications using Apple ResearchKit and Android ReserachStack frameworks.

The subject will be consented through their smartphone. After downloading the app from the App Store, the user will be shown a series of screens that ask eligibility questions and explain the general nature of the study and require interaction and acknowledgment of the subject. These smartphone consent process screens have been adapted from MyHeart Counts, which based its design an open source toolkit developed by Sage Bionetworks in collaboration with the Electronic Data Methods forum of the AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research \& Quality). The investigators have also reviewed this mobile consent process and screenshots with faculty in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. After reviewing the consent screens, the user will be shown the consent form and can scroll through and accept prior to enrollment. The user will have the option to email themselves the consent form.

After consent, subjects will be surveyed about their current cardiovascular health and risk factors and asked to share their activity data collected by the phone and/or any wearable activity device they have. They will then be asked to use their phone and/or wearable to monitor their daily activity for 1 week. They will then be asked to do a standard 6- minute walk test (with the phone/wearable measuring the distance covered), 3 minute step tests and 12 minute runs, with included activities that use the phone's camera to assess heart rate and heart rate recovery.

Every 3 months for at least one year, subjects will be asked to repeat the above to assess for changes - 1) update surveys/risk factors, 2) monitor activity for 1 week, and 3) aforementioned activity tests.

In addition to the health, activity, and fitness assessment, the investigators will give participants the option of joining a randomized controlled trial on physical activity. Participants opting to participate will be randomized to either receive personalized activity coaching including physical activity recommendations, endurance training sessions and video classes or no specific content. All participants will be prompted to conduct periodic cardiorespiratory testing via a task within their smartphone application.

The investigators will also perform a pilot study of up to 50 subjects to test the app prior to release to the general public. Given the potential for large numbers of the general public to download the app for the main study, it is essential that bugs and usage issues with the app be identified and fixed through this larger pilot study. As per the IRB (Institutional Review Board) guidelines, this pilot study will only be "exploratory" in order to help "refine data collection procedures and instruments or prepare a better, more precise research design." Data collected from this pilot study will not be used as research data nor stored permanently. The investigators plan to ask colleagues, including Stanford employees, to use the app for up to 3 months, with periodic contact by research staff for feedback on bugs and other usage issues.

The study is funded by Stanford Medicine, with staff, content and in-kind software development support for the app from Google Inc., including participation of Boston Technology Corporation (Marlborough, MA), an app development company that was hired to create MyStudies.

Being tested
Physical activity coaching

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Physical activity coachingBehavioural

    Interventions will be delivered via smartphone and will consist of physical activity coaching. Once randomized to the Coaching arm, individuals will be presented with seven broad categories of physical activity. They will receive a daily notification on their phone indicating that they have study activities to complete. They will then click on this notification and will be offered five options:

    1. A low intensity activity from one of the categories they selected upon start of coaching
    2. A moderate-to-vigorous endurance activity
    3. The participant will be linked to video content with exercise tutorials/video coaching
    4. Option to skip exercise that day
    5. Option to fill in a different activity that the participant completed (free text entry)

    The participant will then select one of these options and complete the chosen activity. They will be presented with the question "Did you completed the exercise" with three options:

    1. Yes
    2. No
    3. "Give me a different exercise"
Study groups in NCT04183010
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
ControlNo interventionAt the end of this initial week of monitoring, participants will be randomized to a control group or an intervention group. Both groups will be followed for three months, with outcome measurements collected monthly. Both arms will continue to receive their seven day physical activity assessment using the phone's core motion sensors and HealthKit/ Google Health step count. Both groups will also be prompted to complete monthly fitness tests: the 6-minute walk test, a 12 minute run test, and the Tecumseh step test.
Physical activity coachingExperimentalIn addition to the tasks performed and feedback received by the Control arm (see above), the intervention arm will also undergo daily coaching with the goal of increasing their daily step count. Members of this arm will receive daily app notifications indicating that they have activities to complete. They will be provided with 5 exercise options: * Low intensity activity options (i.e. walking in the part, bicycling to the store, etc.). * Moderate to vigorous endurance activity, performed on their own (running, bicycling, rowing, swimming, etc) * An on demand "group session" video * No exercise today * Alternate physical activity -- the participants will have the option to record alternate physical activity that they performed Participants will be asked to indicate if they completed the exercise with three options: * Yes * No * Request for a different exercise to be shown
Receives: Behavioral: Physical activity coaching

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in daily step count

    Change in daily steps from the iPhone computed via HealthKit and from Android via Google Fit

    Measured: Measured daily for a period of 12 weeks, including 1 week of baseline monitoring and during the 11 week duration of the randomized arms.

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Compliance

    Number of exercise sessions completed during the duration of the study.

    Measured: Measured once at the end of the study, covering the 11 week duration of coaching.

  2. Change in resting heart rate

    Change in resting heart rate measured via phone PPG (photoelectric plethysmography) sensors.

    Measured: Measured monthly during the 12 week duration of the study

  3. Change in recovery heart rate

    Change in recovery heart rate measured via phone PPG (photoelectric plethysmography

    ) sensors.

    Measured: Measured monthly during the 12 week duration of the study

  4. Change in daily self-reported happiness

    Participants complete a daily questionnaire in which they are asked "How happy are you feeling today" on a scale of 0 (least happy) to 10 (most happy). Changes in their responses over time are measured.

    Measured: Measured daily during the 12 week duration of the study.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted2 Dec 2019
  2. Study start1 Jan 2023 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion1 Jan 2024 (estimated)
  4. Study completion1 Jan 2026 (estimated)

Why it stopped: Lack of Funding to support the study application

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Study participants will download the MyHeart Counts 3.0 app from their smartphone app store. They will undergo electronic consent, followed by a week of baseline monitoring, during which the phone will track their step count and acceleration. Participants will additionally complete questionnaires about their lifestyle and any risk factors for cardiovascular disease. At the end of this initial week of monitoring, participants will be randomized to a control group or an intervention group. Both groups will be followed for three months, with outcome measurements collected monthly. The intervention arm will also undergo daily coaching with the goal of increasing their daily step count. Members of this arm will receive daily app notifications indicating that they have activities to complete. They will be provided with 5 exercise options.
Masking
Single blind
Who is masked
Participant
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04183010
Sponsor's protocol ID
54220
Acronym
MHC3
Status last verified
Feb 2024
First submitted
22 Nov 2019
Last updated
22 Feb 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: Upon completion of the study, the anonymized participant data will be made available to qualified researchers for download through a portal on synapse.org.

Publications

  • Hershman SG, Bot BM, Shcherbina A, Doerr M, Moayedi Y, Pavlovic A, Waggott D, Cho MK, Rosenberger ME, Haskell WL, Myers J, Champagne MA, Mignot E, Salvi D, Landray M, Tarassenko L, Harrington RA, Yeung AC, McConnell MV, Ashley EA. Physical activity, sleep and cardiovascular health data for 50,000 individuals from the MyHeart Counts Study. Sci Data. 2019 Apr 11;6(1):24. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0016-7.

    PubMed 30975992
  • McConnell MV, Shcherbina A, Pavlovic A, Homburger JR, Goldfeder RL, Waggot D, Cho MK, Rosenberger ME, Haskell WL, Myers J, Champagne MA, Mignot E, Landray M, Tarassenko L, Harrington RA, Yeung AC, Ashley EA. Feasibility of Obtaining Measures of Lifestyle From a Smartphone App: The MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study. JAMA Cardiol. 2017 Jan 1;2(1):67-76. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.4395.

    PubMed 27973671
  • Shcherbina A, Hershman SG, Lazzeroni L, King AC, O'Sullivan JW, Hekler E, Moayedi Y, Pavlovic A, Waggott D, Sharma A, Yeung A, Christle JW, Wheeler MT, McConnell MV, Harrington RA, Ashley EA. The effect of digital physical activity interventions on daily step count: a randomised controlled crossover substudy of the MyHeart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study. Lancet Digit Health. 2019 Nov;1(7):e344-e352. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30129-3. Epub 2019 Oct 9.

    PubMed 33323209

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Physical activity coaching in people with Cardiovascular Health, run by Stanford University at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 22 Feb 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change in daily step count (time frame: Measured daily for a period of 12 weeks, including 1 week of baseline monitoring and during the 11 week duration of the randomized arms.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04183010, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 22 Feb 2024.

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