Enhancing Executive Function and Self-regulation Success Through the Promotion of Brain Health Behaviors: a Telehealth Pilot Study for Veterans with Chronic Multi-symptom Illness.
Enhancing Executive Function and Self-regulation Success Through the Promotion of Brain Health Behaviors: a Telehealth Pilot Study for Veterans with Chronic Multi-symptom Illness.
The objective of this pilot study is to examine the feasibility, safety, and acceptability of a telehealth meditation and physical activity (MAP) intervention among Veterans with chronic multi-symptom illness.
This pilot study innovatively merges with ongoing clinical practice at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center to explore the utility of new VA technologies and distance-bridging approaches for administering a remote intervention that promotes health behaviors (e.g., physical activity and meditation, called mental and physical training or MAP). Not only does this study intend to examine the feasibility of using these tools within the home setting and integrating these practices into the weekly lives of Veterans, but it also aims to determine the best way to administer this type of intervention by comparing a directed MAP (dMAP) intervention arm to a self-guided MAP (sgMAP) intervention arm. Understanding how much guidance to provide Veterans during their path towards recovery is important since we hope that this pilot study will offer not only evidence that these practices can be administered without supervision but also reveal that giving Veterans the right tools (exercise and meditation app on tablet), guidance (directed text message or holistic goals), and support (video-chat health coaching) can have measurable benefits on symptom severity and function.
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