Cost Effective Health Promotion for Older Adults

Working Adults Clinical Trial

Official title:

Cost Effective Health Promotion for Older Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00953030
• Other study ID #: R01DP000094
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 5, 2009
• Last updated: August 5, 2009
• Start date: September 2004
• Est. completion date: July 2008

Study information

• Verified date: August 2009
• Source: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project tests the cost-effectiveness of two promising evidence-based health promotion/ behavior change interventions. The first intervention is the COACH Program, a revised version of the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) that has been implemented to date with older adults at multiple Senior Centers across the country (Leveille et al, 1998). The second is the web-based RealAge program which is also being implemented for older adults at multiple sites nationally and internationally. The Coach program combines a web-based risk assessment with individualized counselling. In contrast, RealAge is a totally web-based program.

The specific hypotheses that we will test in the proposed cost-effectiveness study are shown below.

Primary Study Hypotheses:

COACH participants will experience significantly greater reductions in absenteeism, disability days, and healthcare use and cost at 6 and 12 months than RealAge participants. Participants in both the COACH and RealAge treatment groups will experience significantly greater reductions in absenteeism, disability days, and healthcare use and cost than control group participants at 6 and 12 months.

Secondary Study Hypotheses:

COACH participants will experience significantly greater levels of adherence to health promotion Action Plans and greater reduction in weight, body mass index, blood pressure and depression and greater increase in vitality and quality of life than RealAge participants at 6 and 12 months. Participants in both the COACH and RealAge treatment arms will experience significantly better outcomes on these measures at 6 and 12 months than control group participants.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 423
• Est. completion date: July 2008
• Est. primary completion date: July 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 40 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current employee of the University of Illinois at Chicago

• 40+ years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those not currently employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago

• Those under the age of 40

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Working Adults

Intervention

Behavioral:
• COACH

• RealAge

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Illinois Chicago	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Illinois at Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,