Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees
July 31, 2007 updated by: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior, Improve Health Status, & Reduce Health Care Costs in Employee Populations: A Randomized Trial
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.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
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.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment
2000
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult employee of participating worksite
- Access to desktop computer
Exclusion Criteria:
- Under 18 years of age
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
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Physical Activity
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Fruit and Vegetable intake
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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Health status
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Antecedents to behavior change
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Work productivity
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Costs
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Patricia D Franklin, MD MPH MBA, University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Publications and helpful links
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General Publications
- Daviglus ML, Liu K, Yan LL, Pirzada A, Manheim L, Manning W, Garside DB, Wang R, Dyer AR, Greenland P, Stamler J. Relation of body mass index in young adulthood and middle age to Medicare expenditures in older age. JAMA. 2004 Dec 8;292(22):2743-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.292.22.2743.
- 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. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-16.2.107.
- 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. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.05.008.
- 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. doi: 10.1177/109019819302000309.
- 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. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-11.2.99.
- 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. doi: 10.4278/0890-1171-13.1.36.
- Crump CE, Earp JA, Kozma CM, Hertz-Picciotto I. Effect of organization-level variables on differential employee participation in 10 federal worksite health promotion programs. Health Educ Q. 1996 May;23(2):204-23. doi: 10.1177/109019819602300206.
- Abrams DB, Boutwell WB, Grizzle J, Heimendinger J, Sorensen G, Varnes J. Cancer control at the workplace: the Working Well Trial. Prev Med. 1994 Jan;23(1):15-27. doi: 10.1006/pmed.1994.1003.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2003; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2003(b).
- Roizen MF, Stephenson M. Real Age: Are you as Young as you Can Be? Cliff Street Books 1996.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start
December 1, 2003
Study Completion
December 1, 2005
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 2, 2005
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 2, 2005
First Posted (Estimate)
September 7, 2005
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
August 1, 2007
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
July 31, 2007
Last Verified
July 1, 2007
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 49924
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