Health Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
email, internet, health promotion, behavior change, health status, work productivity, healthcare cost, employee
Brief summary
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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALSequential emails and web support
Sponsors
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Adult employee of participating worksite * Access to desktop computer
Exclusion criteria
* Under 18 years of age
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Physical Activity | — |
| Fruit and Vegetable intake | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Antecedents to behavior change | — |
| Health status | — |
| Work productivity | — |
| Costs | — |
Outcome results
None listed