Using Tailored Emails to Motivate Healthy Behavior Among Employees

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Status

Completed

Conditions

Health Behavior

Treatments

Behavioral: Sequential emails and web support

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00147927

49924

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria