Leveraging WeChat Social-Media and Messaging Platform to Increase Physical Activity in Chinese Glaucoma Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

102

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 25, 2018

Primary Completion Date

November 26, 2018

Study Completion Date

November 26, 2018

Conditions
Glaucoma
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

WeChat Group

"Consenting participants will be randomized to either the intervention or the control arm after successfully wearing an accelerometer for one week. The WeChat Group will be a community forum to share information, encourage each other, and receive communications from the study team. In addition, the study team will disseminate the following information through the group:~1. Daily/Weekly Reminders to exercise~2. Health education materials regarding glaucoma and general health and exercise~3. Motivational content~4. Surveys to gauge what information participants found most interesting and useful to help them exercise"

BEHAVIORAL

Counselling

Study participants in the control group will receive a handout telling them to increase walking and will be counseled that walking may be helpful for the eye at the return visit

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

The affiliated eye hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Wenzhou Medical University

OTHER

lead

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

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