Media Effects Study on Health-Related Content

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Processing Health Information

Treatments: Behavioral: electronic health information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00775008

07-0430-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

A media lab study will be conducted to determine the mechanism by which podcasting may exert an effect. This study will examine both physiological (heart rate, skin conductance, etc.) and psychosocial (knowledge, perceived control, elaboration, etc.) measures in participants listening to a podcast on health versus reading health content on the Web. We hypothesize that podcasting will create a greater physiological response than the Web. There will also be more elaboration in the podcasting group. Podcasting will produce greater feelings of control. Changes in knowledge will be greater in the Web group.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Be willing to be randomized to either the podcast or Web condition
• Able to attend the intervention session

Exclusion criteria

• Not living in the Chapel Hill area

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

podcast

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: electronic health information

Web group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: electronic health information