None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
While health risk communication interventions have proved efficacious in the general population, it has not been adequately tested as a brief online intervention tool. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility and efficacy of a brief online health risk communication intervention on changing behavioural intentions. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive a health risk communication intervention with either a personalised or generalised T2D risk presentation condition, and subsequently either a gain-framed or loss-framed health message condition (e.g. personalised risk and gain-framed health message, personalised risk and loss-framed health message etc). It is hypothesized that participants who received the personalised gained framed condition will demonstrate a greater change in their behavioural intentions.
Interventions
Participants will be recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and directed to Qualtrics to complete the online survey(s). On Qualtrics, participants gave informed consent and completed a pre-screen survey to ensure that they meet the following inclusion criteria: (1) Currently not diagnosed with diabetes, (2) Score at least an intermediate (<5 points) on the AUSDRISK, and (3) only Australian and American (i.e USA) participants, qualify for the full survey. Participants meeting eligibility re
Participants will be recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and directed to Qualtrics to complete the online survey(s). On Qualtrics, participants gave informed consent and completed a pre-screen survey to ensure that they meet the following inclusion criteria: (1) Currently not diagnosed with diabetes, (2) Score at least an intermediate (<5 points) on the AUSDRISK, and (3) only Australian and American (i.e USA) participants, qualify for the full survey. Participants meeting eligibility requirements in the pre-screen will be offered the opportunity to complete the study. While completing the full survey, participants will be presented with the health risk communication intervention which consists of 3 sections: (1) participant's Type 2 diabetes risk (either personalised or generalised risk presentation condition) (2) general information on Type 2 diabetes, and (3) health message recommending lifestyle changes (either gain- or loss-framed message condition). In the full survey, participants will rate their perceived risk of Type 2 diabetes and behavioural intentions before and after receiving the health risk communication intervention. Based on previous trials with research group members, it will take approximately 20 minutes to complete both screening and full survey. When the survey is published on MTurk, researcher MG will access website analytics on Qualtrics and Amazon MTurk daily to monitor adherence to the intervention and assess for any issues with the survey. This cross-sectional study will employ a 2 (Framing: individualised vs generalised) x 2 (Framing: loss vs. gain) between-subjects experimental design. Each participant will be randomly assigned to one of the four message frames by an automated device embedded in the program/website: Personalised/Loss, Personalised/Gain, Generalised/Loss and Generalised/Gain.
Sponsors
University of Wollongong
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
(1) Currently not diagnosed with diabetes, (2) Score at least an intermediate (<5 points) on the AUSDRISK, and (3) only Australian and American (i.e USA) participants,
Exclusion criteria
(1) Currently diagnosed with diabetes, (2) Score low (4 points and below) on the AUSDRISK, and (3) non-Australian and American (i.e USA) participants,
Outcome results
None listed