Adaptive mobile app to help keep heart-healthy habits
ADAPT: Enabling robust adaptation in mHealth interventions for supporting maintenance of heart-healthy behaviors
This project builds a smartphone program that learns your needs and changes its coaching to help people who finished cardiac rehab keep exercising and eating heart-healthy.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11249237 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you finished cardiac rehabilitation, the team will design phone-based tools that change messages, goals, and timing based on how you're doing and what you tell the app. They will create new algorithms and easy-to-use screens so the app can notice when you are discouraged, busy, or slipping and respond with different support. The researchers plan to use data from your phone (activity, responses) and patient feedback to train the system and test which adaptations keep people engaged. The work includes testing the app with people who completed cardiac rehab to see if the adaptive approach helps maintain exercise and diet habits over time.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Adults who have completed cardiac rehabilitation or have cardiovascular disease and who use a smartphone are ideal candidates.
Not a fit: People without a smartphone, those unable to use mobile apps, or patients whose medical needs require hands-on supervised programs may not benefit.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: Could help you stay active and eat healthier after cardiac rehab, which may lower your future heart risk.
How similar studies have performed: Other mobile health programs have shown short-term benefits for heart-healthy behaviors, but long-term engagement and adaptive approaches are newer and still being tested.
Where this research is happening
Ann Arbor, United States
- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Klasnja, Predrag — University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Study coordinator: Klasnja, Predrag
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.