NCT00147927

Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,000 (planned)
• Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sequential emails and web support

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-12-01
• Completion: 2005-12-01
• First posted: 2005-09-07
• Last updated: 2007-08-01