Electronic Health Records for Health Promotion

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether personally controlled electronic health records can be used for health promotion in a workplace setting.

Detailed Description
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In response to the call for research of the new Health Protection Research Initiative at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we propose to adapt newly mature informatics technology to shift the paradigm for health alerting and health promotion in the workplace. The goal is to firmly ground these activities on real time information collected from and delivered to employees, in an interactive, secure, electronic environment. We will study influenza prevention and control, an archetype of public health practice requiring surveillance, communication, and timely influence of health-related behaviors. Complex information gleaned from surveillance will be processed, translated and provided to employees. The goal is to provide employees with timely, individualized health promotion messages to improve their knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding influenza and to increase the rate of seasonal influenza immunization for them and their household members. The approach will be evaluated in a group randomized design at several worksites of a major corporation.

Official Title
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Health Promotion in the Workplace Using Personally Controlled Health Records

Conditions
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Influenza

Intervention / Treatment
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* Device: Electronic health record and messaging system


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: The subject is a part-time or full-time employee at a major corporation. The subject is eighteen years of age or older. The subject is comfortable reading and writing in English. The subject has reliable internet access at home, at school, or at work. The subject uses email regularly (i.e. at least once every 2 days) The subject does not have a known allergy to chicken eggs or a history of a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination in the past. Exclusion Criteria: -

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Device: Electronic health record and messaging system|nan|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| - Rate of influenza immunization among subjects |  |  | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in knowledge, attitutes, and beliefs regarding influenza and influenza immunization. |  |  | 
| Changes in health behaviors around influenza (e.g. hand washing and cough etiquette). |  |  | 
| General health outcomes related to respiratory illnesses (e.g. number of influenza-like illnesses, number of physician visits, number of missed work days). |  |  | 
| Rate of influenza immunization among subject household members. |  |  | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Influenza, Electronic health record, Behavior modification