A Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health (MORPH)
CompletedNot applicableNCT03377634
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic pain contributes to declining health and function in older adults; effects that are intensified by obesity and sedentary (sitting) behavior. The purpose of this study is to develop and test a novel, patient-centered intervention to reduce pain and improve physical function in older, obese adults. The study will utilize a combination of telephone based coaching and smartphone tools to deliver this novel intervention to decrease both body weight and sitting behavior. The long-term goals of this project are to test the efficacy of the intervention and to develop it as a tool for clinicians to provide outside-of-clinic patient-centered support for overweight/obese older adults with chronic pain.
Study details
- Official title
- A Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health (MORPH) in Obese Older Adults
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Obesity
- Sedentary Lifestyle
- Interventions
- Behavioral: MORPH
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Start date
- 2018-08-07
- Primary completion
- 2020-02-28
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 65 Years to 79 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Own smartphone * Pain in 2 of 5 areas (i.e., back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees) on most days during the previous 3 months * No contraindication for participation in exercise with approval for participation by their physician * Obese (BMI=30-45 kg/m2) * Weight-stable (i.e., no weight loss or gain \> 5% in the past 6 months) * Low-active (i.e., engaging in less than 2 days/week of structured physical activity for at least 20 minutes). * Approved for participation by LMC Pain Center Director and Dr. Brooks * Willingness to provide consent; Agree to all study procedures and assessments; Able to provide own transportation to study visits * Access to home Wi-Fi and smartphone device Exclusion Criteria: * Dependent on cane or walker * \>1 fall (injurious or non-injurious) in past year * Vision insufficient to read a smartphone screen, unable to read * Participation in regular resistance training and/or \> 20 mins/d of aerobic exercise in past 6 months * No contraindication to exercise * Unable to walk without assistive devices * Cognitive impairment as indicated by a Montreal Cognitive Assessment score \< 22 * Uncontrolled hypertension (\>160/90 mmHg); * Current or recent past (within 1 year) severe symptomatic heart disease, uncontrolled angina, stroke, chronic respiratory disease requiring oxygen, neurological or hematological disease; cancer requiring treatment in past yr, except non-melanoma skin cancers * Regular use of: growth hormones, oral steroids, or prescription osteoporosis medications * Current participation in other research study targeting pain, physical activity, or weight loss
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03377634