Tracking Physical Activity for Chronic Pain Management Among Older Adults in Detroit

Participants in the STEPS (Seniors Tracking Exercise for Pain Self-management) intervention will receive a commercially-available, wearable physical activity monitor. They will be asked to wear this monitor during waking hours for 6 weeks, reporting their daily step count every evening. The way in which participants report steps will change every 2 weeks. For the first 4 weeks of the study, participants will report via Interactive Voice Response (IVR) calls for 2 weeks and SMS text messages for 2 weeks. For the final two week period, research staff will help participants to set up the monitor to automatically send daily step counts to STEPS project staff. This can be done through a smartphone, tablet, or computer.