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Online Tailored Interventions & Relational Agents for Exercise and Sun Protection

NCT01458002 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1364

Last updated 2016-05-12

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Summary

This study targets two major risk factors for cancer; is designed to treat the behaviors on a population basis, using proactive recruitment strategies; intervenes on multiple behaviors simultaneously, thereby producing greater impacts for cancer prevention; utilizes one of the most promising approaches to low cost population based interventions for health-related behavior change, namely the internet; and develops and tests a promising new approach to increasing the utilization and effectiveness of internet-based interventions, relational agents. The primary aims are: (1) To develop and assess the effectiveness of a tailored internet intervention on a national sample; (2) To develop and assess the effectiveness of the internet intervention enhanced by a relational agent; and (3) To determine if the intervention with the relational agent can outperform the regular tailored internet intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Tailored Internet Communication with Relational Agent

The Tailored Internet Intervention will include a "relational agent" component, which is an animated conversational agent that builds a working relationship with subjects over time and uses this alliance to boost intervention effectiveness and retention to the Tailored Internet Communications web site.

OTHER

Tailored Internet Communications

Best practices for TTM tailored communications with two types of feedback: normative - compared to peers and ipsative - self compared to previous assessment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northeastern University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Pro-Change Behavior Systems

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Rhode Island

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wayne F Velicer, PhD · Univeristy of Rhode Island

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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