The Effect of a Coloring Prompt on Health Engagement

In Need of a Blood Pressure Check (Hypertension Screening) Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of a Coloring Prompt on Health Engagement

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01352390
• Other study ID #: 813606
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 6, 2011
• Last updated: May 3, 2017
• Start date: May 2011
• Est. completion date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: University of Pennsylvania
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this project is to determine whether prompting the recipient of a health reminder mailing to ask his or her 4-9 year-old child to color on the reminder could increase engagement with the targeted health behavior

Description:

The investigators will randomly assign some individuals with 4-9 year old children to receive colorful reminders to engage in a given health behavior. Others will receive identical reminders along with a prompt to share the reminder sheet with their child so it can be turned into a piece of art. The investigators are interested in whether the coloring prompt will lead the reminder to stay in the home for longer, be placed on the refrigerator, etc. and thus result in an increase in compliance with the recommended health behavior.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 8711
• Est. completion date: November 2012
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Indications according to Spring 2011 CDC criteria for a Pap smear

• Indications according to Spring 2011 CDC criteria for a blood pressure check

• Indications according to Spring 2011 CDC criteria for a cholesterol test

• Indications according to Spring 2011 CDC criteria for a fasting plasma glucose test

• Employee at partner corporation that implemented the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• In Need of a Blood Pressure Check (Hypertension Screening)
• In Need of a Cholesterol Test (Lipid Disorder Screening)
• In Need of a Fasting Plasma Glucose Test (Diabetes)
• In Need of a Pap Smear (Cervical Cancer Screening)
• Lipid Metabolism Disorders
• Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Planning Prompt
A prompt to have their child their health test reminder mailing to color
• Control Condition
A basic reminder mailing will prompt each subject to get a health test as specified on the mailing

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Pennsylvania

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Participants that schedule an appointment for receipt of a Pap smear.		up to 52 weeks
Secondary	Number of Participants that schedule an appointment for receipt of a Blood pressure check		up to 52 weeks
Secondary	Number of Participants that schedule an appointment for receipt of a Cholesterol test		up to 52 weeks
Secondary	Number of Participants that schedule an appointment for receipt of a Fasting plasma glucose test		up to 52 weeks