ArticleFrontiers in digital health2020
A Mobile Health Behavior Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health in Older Adults With Obesity and Chronic Pain: The MORPH Pilot Trial.
Article in Frontiers in digital health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03377634 (A Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Mobile Intervention to Reduce Pain and Improve Health (MORPH) in Obese Older Adults
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- EffectS of Lifestyle Interventions in Older PEople With Obesity (Effective SLOPE): a Systematic Review With Network Meta-Analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of digital pain management for older adults with musculoskeletal pain: systematic review with meta-analysis.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Caloric restriction and time-restricted eating in older adults with overweight or obesity: The Health, Aging, and Later-Life Outcomes Pilot Study.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026Trial
- Intervening on Calorie Intake or Eating Timing in Older Adults: Lessons Learned in the Healthy Aging and Late-Life Outcomes Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Trial
- Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Virtual Reality for Remote Group-Mediated Physical Activity in Older Adults: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2024Trial
- The impact of Dietary Weight loss, Aerobic Exercise, and Daylong Movement on Social Cognitive Mediators of Long-term Weight loss.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Intervening on exercise and daylong movement for weight loss maintenance in older adults: A randomized, clinical trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- A mobile intervention to reduce pain and improve health-III: protocol for a remotely delivered randomized controlled trial of physical activity for pain management in older adults with obesity and knee or hip osteoarthritis.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Does time spent upright moderate the influence of a weighted vest on change in bone mineral density during weight loss among older adults? A secondary analysis of the INVEST in bone health randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in aging · 2026Article
- Professional-Facing Digital Health Technology for the Care of Patients With Chronic Pain: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Shaping the future of geriatric chronic pain care: a research agenda for progress.Pain management · 2025Article
- eHealth-Integrated Psychosocial and Physical Interventions for Chronic Pain in Older Adults: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Consolidated guidance for behavioral intervention pilot and feasibility studies.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- Attributes, Methods, and Frameworks Used to Evaluate Wearables and Their Companion mHealth Apps: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- Mapping review of pain management programmes and psychological therapies for community-dwelling older people living with pain.European geriatric medicine · 2024Review
- Successes and lessons learned from a mobile health behavior intervention to reduce pain and improve health in older adults with obesity and chronic pain: a qualitative study.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Associations Between Patterns of Daily Stepping Behavior, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Pain Symptoms Among Older Adults with Chronic Pain: A Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical interventions in aging · 2024Article
- Expert Perspectives on Pilot and Feasibility Studies: A Delphi Study and Consolidation of Considerations for Behavioral Interventions.Research square · 2023Article
- eHealth in obesity care.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Chronic, multisite pain is a common phenomenon in aging and is associated with a host of negative health outcomes. It is a complex and multifaceted condition that may be exacerbated by weight gain and long periods of inactivity. Unfortunately, older adults suffering from chronic pain have unique barriers limiting access to center-based behavior change interventions. The MORPH study first adapted and iteratively refined an evidence-based group-mediated intervention for delivery in the home via mHealth tools (a smartphone app, teleconferencing software, wearable activity monitor, smart weight scale). This was followed by a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) meant to assess feasibility of the MORPH intervention, and to examine initial effects on physical function, pain, weight, and sedentary behavior. We recruited low-active and obese older adults with multisite pain to partake in a series of N-of-1 refinement studies ( CLINICAL
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, Identifier: NCT03377634.
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