Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees - Tabular View

Tracking Information

First Received Date ^ICMJE

September 2, 2005

Last Updated Date

July 31, 2007

Start Date ^ICMJE

December 2003

Primary Completion Date

Current Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Physical Activity
Fruit and Vegetable intake

Original Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Same as current

Change History

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Current Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Antecedents to behavior change
Health status
Work productivity
Costs

Original Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Same as current

Descriptive Information

Brief Title ^ICMJE

Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees

Official Title ^ICMJE

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

Brief Summary

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.

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.

Study Phase

Study Type ^ICMJE

Interventional

Study Design ^ICMJE

Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Condition ^ICMJE

Health Behavior

Intervention ^ICMJE

Behavioral: Sequential emails and web support

Study Arms / Comparison Groups

Publications *

* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.

Recruitment Information

Recruitment Status ^ICMJE

Completed

Enrollment ^ICMJE

2000

Completion Date

December 2005

Primary Completion Date

Eligibility Criteria ^ICMJE

Inclusion Criteria:

Adult employee of participating worksite
Access to desktop computer

Exclusion Criteria:

Under 18 years of age

Gender

Both

Ages

18 Years and older

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Contacts ^ICMJE

Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects

Location Countries ^ICMJE

Administrative Information

NCT ID ^ICMJE

NCT00147927

Responsible Party

Study ID Numbers ^ICMJE

49924

Study Sponsor ^ICMJE

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Collaborators ^ICMJE

Investigators ^ICMJE

Principal Investigator:

Patricia D Franklin, MD MPH MBA

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Information Provided By

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Verification Date

July 2007

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