A Co-Designed, Culturally-Tailored mHealth Tool to Support Healthy Lifestyles in Maori and Pasifika Communities in New Zealand: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New Zealand urgently requires scalable, effective, behavior change programs to support healthy lifestyles that are tailored to the needs and lived contexts of Māori and Pasifika communities.

Objective

The primary objective of this study is to determine the effects of a co-designed, culturally tailored, lifestyle support mHealth tool (the OL@-OR@ mobile phone app and website) on key risk factors and behaviors associated with an increased risk of noncommunicable disease (diet, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption) compared with a control condition.

Methods

A 12-week, community-based, two-arm, cluster-randomized controlled trial will be conducted across New Zealand from January to December 2018. Participants (target N=1280; 64 clusters: 32 Māori

SUBMITTER: Verbiest M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125615 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature