None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Study purpose The aim of this project is to find out the usefulness and helpfulness of the newly developed co-designed Early Menopause website compared to what is currently available. Who is it for? Women aged 20 years or over with a diagnosis of early menopause (menopause occurring before age 45 years). What does it involve? We will explore and compare the views of women with early menopause (EM) on their experience, satisfaction and knowledge after looking at the EM website or another menopause website currently available. To try to make sure the groups are the same, each participant will be put into a group by chance (random) to either review the EM website or a currently available menopause website and complete 3 surveys. After you agree to participate and complete a baseline survey, you will be sent a link to one of the 2 websites randomly chosen for you. After viewing the website, you will be asked to complete an online survey immediately after you look at the website. You will then be sent a link one month later to complete a further follow-up survey. Each survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. All women regardless of group will be able to freely access the EM website once the evaluation process is completed and the website is launched.
Interventions
Two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial.
Participants will be randomized to view either the newly developed Healthtalk early menopause website (intervention) or a currently available general menopause website (control) as per the procedure below. Healthtalk Australia websites, produced and hosted by Healthdirect Australia provide accurate information about a range of health conditions. The newly developed website relates specifically to early menopause (including symptoms, infertility, lo
Two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial. Participants will be randomized to view either the newly developed Healthtalk early menopause website (intervention) or a currently available general menopause website (control) as per the procedure below. Healthtalk Australia websites, produced and hosted by Healthdirect Australia provide accurate information about a range of health conditions. The newly developed website relates specifically to early menopause (including symptoms, infertility, long term consequences and management options) and provides a variety of resources including informative web pages, downloadable factsheets, links to other resources (videos, webpage, factsheets) video and audio clips of women's experiences, and where to seek help. Both the intervention and control will be delivered via the internet to participants. The online study link will take participants to a screening webpage, and if eligible, participants will be provided with an Informed Participant Information and Consent form. Consent for this study will be carried out electronically, and will allow for the capture of an electronic signature. Once the Consent is submitted online, participants will be redirected to the Baseline Evaluation survey. After the Baseline Evaluation survey is completed the study team will receive a notification, and participants will be randomised to either the intervention website or control website and emailed a link to the designated website to view the website and then complete the Immediate Post Intervention Survey. Women are free to access any or all parts of the website and have access to the website for the duration of the study until the final 1 month post intervention survey is completed. The final survey - 1 Month Post Intervention Survey will be automatically sent to participants to complete 30 days after the Immediate Post Intervention Survey has been submitted. Researchers are able to remotely monitor whether the surveys have been completed and reminder emails will be sent automatically to complete the surveys if they have not been submitted within 14 days of delivery.
Sponsors
Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
(i) women with diagnosis of early menopause (menopause occurring before age 45 years) aged 20 years or over (ii) computer access (iii) use of the internet at least once per week (iv) personal email address.
Exclusion criteria
(i) no diagnosis of early menopause or diagnosis unclear (ii) unable to read English (iii) no or limited computer access,
Outcome results
None listed