Danielle Miller

CHARLOTTE — The latest drought monitor shows minor improvements to drought conditions across the Charlotte metro area.

Honor Flight Arizona launched its first standalone chartered flight to transport 91 Korean War and Vietnam War veterans to see U.S. national memorials free of charge.

Channel 9 has been watching local lake levels get lower during the extreme drought.

Volunteers placed flags at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona ahead of Memorial Day to honor fallen military service members.

The hidden mental health impact of inaccessibility IMAGINE living in a world where conversations happen around you every day, yet you only catch fragments of meaning.

West-MEC veterinary students and local essay contest winners worked alongside professionals at Vistancia Animal Hospital for a comprehensive, real-world learning clinic.

So now the question is, was this enough to alleviate the drought?

Several Arizona organizations are partnering for a sponsored build and delivery event to provide beds and bedding to children in need.

As the Southwest continues to figure out how to adapt to drought conditions, Arizona could soon be getting help from California.

Methods: This trial is a 12-week, decentralized, single-arm, National Institutes of Health Stage II behavioral trial. The trial will deliver a personalized, multicomponent BCT intervention to disrupt time spent sedentary by encouraging forming a habit of hourly walking among caregivers of persons with ADRD via the key mechanism of behavior change behavioral automaticity. The intervention includes 4 daily SMS text message–delivered BCT components previously used in interventions to disrupt sedentary behavior—Goal setting, Action planning, Prompts/cues, and Self-monitoring. Formation of an hourly walking habit is the primary outcome and will be defined as walking an additional 250 steps or more per hour for the same 4 consecutive hours as set up in a personalized walking plan on 7 consecutive days. Secondary outcomes include evaluating associations between habit formation and behavioral automaticity, and between longitudinal behavioral automaticity and habitual hourly walking over time. Additionally, heterogeneity of treatment effects will be evaluated. Exploratory analyses will examine potential moderating variables that may influence the intervention effect. The trial uses digital enrollment strategies, SMS text message intervention delivery, passive data collection via Fitbit (Google) devices, and online survey assessments to collect data remotely.