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Online Program Assisting Lifestyle Changes (Asterix 1.0 & Obelix 2.0)

NCT00986375 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2012-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to help Internet users to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is imperative to increase self-management competencies to improve healthy eating and regular physical activity. Aim of this research project is to evaluate an evidence- and theory-based computerized expert system in comparison to a standard program. In addition, two different tailoring criteria are compared to each other with regard to the misclassification of study participants. Internet users will be treated psychologically and followed up over 12 weeks. The computerized expert system is expected to help users better than the standard program. Both interventions are hypothesized to improve self-management competencies over time.

Conditions

  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention Group (IG)

patients will receive an interactive, computerized expert system which tailors treatment components to the individual needs of the patients

BEHAVIORAL

Active Control Group (ACG)

Patients in the ACG will get an interactive computerized standard program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Freie Universität Berlin

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ralf Schwarzer, PhD · Freie Universitaet Berlin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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