Check Yourself Study

Laura Richardson

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Risk Behaviors; Health Care Services Quality of Care

Treatments: Behavioral: Check Yourself App with Feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02360410

6 R40MC26817-01-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial that compares the effectiveness of an electronic personalized health screening app incorporating motivational feedback (i.e., "Check Yourself") to usual care. The purpose of this study is to determine whether Check Yourself is more effective than usual care in reducing health risk behaviors and improving quality of care among adolescents receiving primary health care services.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible individuals will be 13-18 years old who have an appointment to see a provider at a participating clinic and will be able to read and comprehend English.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals will be excluded from the study if:

  • they do not meet age requirements,
  • do not have an appointment at a participating clinic,
  • lack the means to complete follow-up interviews (i.e., has neither telephone not internet access),
  • have a sibling who has/is being enrolled in the study and/or
  • are not able to read or comprehend English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Check Yourself App With Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Adolescents complete Check Yourself, an electronic health screening app and receive personalized, motivational feedback on their health behaviors prior to their primary care appointment. Key components of Check Yourself include the provision of age normative feedback, goal setting strategies, and strategies to highlight discrepancies. Primary care providers receive a summary report of health risk behaviors from Check Yourself prior to their adolescent patient's primary care appointment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Check Yourself App with Feedback

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are asked to complete health risk screening on a tablet computer. No personalized feedback is provided to adolescents and primary care providers do not receive a summary report of the adolescent's health risk behaviors.