Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees

Health Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00147927
• Other study ID #: 49924
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 2, 2005
• Last updated: July 31, 2007
• Start date: December 2003
• Est. completion date: December 2005

Study information

• Verified date: July 2007
• Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2000
• Est. completion date: December 2005
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult employee of participating worksite

• Access to desktop computer

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18 years of age

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Sequential emails and web support

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

References & Publications (10)

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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. — View Citation

Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2003; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2003(b).

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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. — View Citation

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. — View Citation

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. — View Citation

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. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Physical Activity
Primary	Fruit and Vegetable intake
Secondary	Antecedents to behavior change
Secondary	Health status
Secondary	Work productivity
Secondary	Costs