Clinical trial NCT00147927: Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees
Official title: Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior, Improve Health Status, & Reduce Health Care Costs in Employee Populations: A Randomized Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Behavior
Keywords: email
internet
health promotion
behavior change
health status
work productivity
healthcare cost
employee
Lead sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2005-09-07
Enrollment: 2000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult employee of participating worksite
* Access to desktop computer

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under 18 years of age

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physical Activity
measure: Fruit and Vegetable intake
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Antecedents to behavior change
measure: Health status
measure: Work productivity
measure: Costs
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
name: Patricia D Franklin, MD MPH MBA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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