Check Yourself v2.0

Carolyn McCarty

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Check Yourself v2.0

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02882919

1R01HS023383-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Health risk screening in adolescent primary care is infrequently performed and results are rarely followed by targeted intervention. In response to the need for screening-linked interventions, the study team has developed and optimized a web-based, electronic Personalized Motivational Feedback tool referred to as "Check Yourself v2.0" Based on motivational interviewing, a technique to mobilize personal change, Check Yourself is designed to promote healthy choices for the multiple behaviors relevant to adolescents.

Full description

The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial that compares the effectiveness of Check Yourself v2.0 to usual care. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of Check Yourself on reducing health risk behaviors and improving quality of care among adolescents receiving primary health care services relative to usual care.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Eligible adolescent participants will be13-18 years of age
• Able to understand English.
• Will have an appointment (or have a child with an appointment) with a participating medical practice.

Exclusion Criteria: Adolescents will be excluded from the study

• Participants do not meet age requirements
• Do not have an appointment with a participating provider at a PSPRN clinic,
• Lack the means to complete follow-up interviews (i.e., have neither telephone nor internet access)
• Have a sibling who has been/is being enrolled in the study or have previously participated in our previous trial comparing Check Yourself to usual care
• Not able to understand English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Check Yourself v2.0

Experimental group

Description:

In the intervention group, adolescents complete Check Yourself which delivers 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 will receive a summary report of health risk behaviors prior to their adolescent patient's primary care appointment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Check Yourself v2.0

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

In the usual care group, patients are asked to complete health risk screening on a 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