Web-based Personal Health Management System to Promote Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) screening

A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a web-based personal health management system in increasing the uptake of Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) screening and engagement with health services for sexual health concerns in young people.

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12612000459820

Enrollment

360

Registered

2012-04-24

Start date

2013-03-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The aim of this project is to assess the effectiveness of a web-based personal health management system, 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 screening activities and this randomized controlled trial will specifically test whether system use is associated with an increased rate of STI screening among young people aged 18-29 years.

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 sexual health and STI screening; an online tool for consumers to book an appointment at the University Health Service for sexual health concerns or STI screening; 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. * Following completion of the online tutorial, the frequency in which the healthy.me system will be used is at the discretion of the participants. * Duration of study is expected to be 3-6 months. Period of access to the website will vary depending on date of participant enrolment.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 29 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

1. Aged 18-29 2. Access to the Internet and email on a monthly basis

Exclusion criteria

nil

Outcome results