DWELL: Design For Wellness - An Online Intervention To Create Healthier Home Environments

Laura J. Rosen

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Wellness; Design For Wellness

Treatments: Behavioral: Design For Wellness (DWELL); Behavioral: Wait list control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03736525

141.18

Details and patient eligibility

About

Design for wellness (DWELL) is an online Facebook intervention developed to effectively cause participants to design their home environments for wellness. Also, to improve health behaviors (specifically: healthy nutrition, physical activity, smoke free home and hygiene); to improve awareness of the importance of the environment in healthy behaviors; and to improve overall wellness. The research will follow qualitative methods in early stages for a deep understanding of participants' needs and inputs, complimented by a rigorous, quantitative approach using randomized controlled trail (RCT) for program evaluation. Participants are Israeli mothers to children up to 18 years old with Facebook profile, who are often in Israel responsible for household management and raising the family. The program will provide the participants with an accessible and convenient online setting for active and group oriented collaborative learning, in informal personalized environment. Motivating the participants to enhance their engagement in DWELL online community is expected to encourage the participants to design their home environment for wellness and improve their health behaviors and overall wellness.

Full description

The primary aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the intervention on home design for wellness (DWELL). This will be measured through the use of a validated DWELL questionnaire for actions related to changes in home environment for wellness. Secondary aims are to: 1) assess the effectiveness of the intervention on health behaviors, specifically in: nutrition, physical activity, smoke-free homes and hygiene; 2) improve awareness of the importance of the environment in healthy behavior; 3) improve wellness; 4) assess associations between level of participation (active social, active non-social, passive use) and other outcomes: DWELL, awareness of importance, health behaviors, and wellness.

Participants will be Israeli mothers who are at least 18 years old and have children up to 18 years old, who are willing to participate in the study, can read and write Hebrew, and have internet access and Facebook profile. Recruitment for the trial will be mainly through Facebook and WhatsApp. Semi-structured focus groups will be conducted in order to create DWELL content for intervention and the DWELL questionnaire to assess intervention's effectiveness.

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted to assess effectiveness of an online intervention. Recruitment for the trial will be mainly through Facebook and WhatsApp. Sample size will be calculated based on initial results from the focus group's pilot. After recruitment, participants will be randomised into intervention and wait list control groups, using the online software "Research Randomizer". A three-month Facebook intervention will be carried out. Participants in both groups will fill pre, mid and post intervention questionnaires online. After the first 3 months of the intervention, the investigators will open the group to all participants, including those on the wait list control group. This will allow control group participants to access the treatment and to compensate the participants for participation. The investigators will continue to follow and manage the group and monitor its long-term activation.

A general linear model will be used which takes in to account repeated measures. A time-to-event analysis using Cox proportional hazards models will be conducted to examine the length of time for which change persisted.

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Israeli mothers who are at least 18 years old and have children <=18 who are willing to participate in a social media (Facebook) intervention.

Exclusion criteria

• Participant is not an Israeli woman.
• Participant is not a mother.
• Participant is under 18 years old.
• Participant does not have at least one child up to 18 years old.
• Participant is not willing to participate in the study.
• Participant can not read and write Hebrew.
• Participant does not have internet access.
• Participant does not have Facebook profile. �

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Design For Wellness (DWELL)

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention participants will: 1) consume scientific evidence and practical solutions of how to design the home environment for wellness; 2) be part of a community which encourage participants engagement; 3) be empowered to read and control cues in the environment by developing skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Design For Wellness (DWELL)

Wait list control group

Other group

Description:

After the close of the study, we will open the Facebook group to all, and wait list control group participants can receive a delayed form of the intervention, which includes: 1) consume scientific evidence and practical solutions of how to design the home environment for wellness; 2) be part of a community which encourage participants engagement; 3) be empowered to read and control cues in the environment by developing skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wait list control group