Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees - Full Text View

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a multi-component email health promotion program on employee adoption of health promoting behaviors and secondarily on health status, work productivity and health care costs.

Condition	Intervention
Health Behavior	Behavioral: Sequential emails and web support

MedlinePlus related topics:

Healthy Living

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Official Title:	Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior, Improve Health Status, & Reduce Health Care Costs in Employee Populations: A Randomized Trial

Further study details as provided by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Physical Activity
Fruit and Vegetable intake

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Antecedents to behavior change
Health status
Work productivity
Costs

Estimated Enrollment:	2000
Study Start Date:	December 2003
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2005

Detailed Description:

The Specific Aims are:

To demonstrate the feasibility and assess the acceptability of email health promotion among diverse employee groups;
To evaluate short and intermediate-term changes in health behaviors (e.g., daily fruit/vegetable intake, weekly physical activity) at 6 and 12 months;
To assess change in health status (SF-12), work productivity, and healthcare costs among email program users and controls;
To identify person predictors of sustained voluntary participation in a 6 month email health promotion program among the workforce population;
To disseminate the results to maximize influence on e-health promotion, employer health promotion programs, health insurance policy, and research.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Adult employee of participating worksite
Access to desktop computer

Exclusion Criteria:

Under 18 years of age

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00147927

Sponsors and Collaborators

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Patricia D Franklin, MD MPH MBA	University of Massachusetts Medical School

More Information

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; Prevalence Fruit and Vegetables, 2003 This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications:

Daviglus ML, Liu K, Yan LL, Pirzada A, Manheim L, Manning W, Garside DB, Wang R, Dyer AR, Greenland P, Stamler J. Relation of body mass index in young adulthood and middle age to Medicare expenditures in older age. JAMA. 2004 Dec 8;292(22):2743-9.

Pelletier KR. A review and analysis of the clinical- and cost-effectiveness studies of comprehensive health promotion and disease management programs at the worksite: 1998-2000 update. Am J Health Promot. 2001 Nov-Dec;16(2):107-16. Review.

Aldana SG, Merrill RM, Price K, Hardy A, Hager R. Financial impact of a comprehensive multisite workplace health promotion program. Prev Med. 2005 Feb;40(2):131-7.

Glasgow RE, McCaul KD, Fisher KJ. Participation in worksite health promotion: a critique of the literature and recommendations for future practice. Health Educ Q. 1993 Fall;20(3):391-408. Review.

Lewis RJ, Huebner WW, Yarborough CM 3rd. Characteristics of participants and nonparticipants in worksite health promotion. Am J Health Promot. 1996 Nov-Dec;11(2):99-106.

Grosch JW, Alterman T, Petersen MR, Murphy LR. Worksite health promotion programs in the U.S.: factors associated with availability and participation. Am J Health Promot. 1998 Sep-Oct;13(1):36-45.

Crump CE, Earp JA, Kozma CM, Hertz-Picciotto I. Effect of organization-level variables on differential employee participation in 10 federal worksite health promotion programs. Health Educ Q. 1996 May;23(2):204-23.

Abrams DB, Boutwell WB, Grizzle J, Heimendinger J, Sorensen G, Varnes J. Cancer control at the workplace: the Working Well Trial. Prev Med. 1994 Jan;23(1):15-27.

Roizen MF, Stephenson M. Real Age: Are you as Young as you Can Be? Cliff Street Books 1996.

Study ID Numbers:	49924
First Received:	September 2, 2005
Last Updated:	July 31, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00147927
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:

email

internet

health promotion

behavior change

health status

work productivity

healthcare cost

employee

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Healthy

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 29, 2008

Sponsored by:	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Information provided by:	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00147927