None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this project is to assess the effectiveness of an online system designed for healthcare consumers, called healthy.me, to support healthcare management. healthy.me provides consumers condition specific information, as well as online tools to manage their care including a personal health record. We hypothesise that use of healthy.me will improve the uptake of preventative activities and this randomized controlled trial will specifically test whether system use is associated with an increased rate of influenza vaccination among university students and staff over the respiratory infections season.
Interventions
* healthy.me is an online system developed at the Centre for Health Informatics,University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. It contains information about influenza vaccination; an online tool for consumers to book an appointment at the University Health Service for influenza vaccination; and an online personal health record for participants to record their appointments, medications and other health-related information.
* All participants are required to complete a 5-minute mandatory onlin
* healthy.me is an online system developed at the Centre for Health Informatics,University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. It contains information about influenza vaccination; an online tool for consumers to book an appointment at the University Health Service for influenza vaccination; and an online personal health record for participants to record their appointments, medications and other health-related information. * All participants are required to complete a 5-minute mandatory online tutorial about the healthy.me system before commencing the study. * Duration of study is expected to be 6 months. Period of access to the website will vary depending on date of participant enrollment.
Sponsors
The HCF Health and Medical Research Foundation
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Aged 18 or above 2. Access to the Internet and email on a monthly basis
Exclusion criteria
1. Participants who self-reported having received an influenza vaccination in 2010 before commencing the study will be excluded from analysis. 2. Participants who self-reported to be influenced by other participants undergoing the study when deciding to undertake influenza vaccination during the study will also be excluded.
Outcome results
None listed