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A Randomized Online Health Experiment for a Safer Youth Sexual Behaviour

NCT02128620 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 996

Last updated 2016-01-05

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Summary

The objective of this project is to assess the impact of a Game-Based Appointment System on both, the clinical settings, and on the use of the educational web app www.sjekkdeg.no.

An A/B testing methodology will be used. This methodology consist on the redirection of the users to two different versions of the website, and therefore allows to assess the interactivity of the users according to the design of the webpage and determine which one has a higher impact on the clinical settings, and consequently on prevention of STDs.

For the A/B test we will test the interactivity of two versions of a web page www.sjekkdeg.no: the A version (control), consisting en the educative web app; and the B version, consisting in the web app www.sjekkdeg.no including the Game-Based Appointment System.

The Game-Based Appointment System will offer the users the option of booking appointments at the venereology department at the University Hospital of North Norway. The system will include an automatic priority appointments function, with three levels of prioritization (triage): 1) Emergency-appointment: The user should go to the doctor on the same day or the following day. 2) Haste-appointment: Within 3-4 days; or 3) Routine-appointment: within 2-3 weeks.

The hypotheses of this research project are:

1. The number of visits with the health professionals will be larger in the game-based appointment group than in the control group.
2. The number of visits to the educative components of www.sjekkdeg.no will increase after the launch of the Game-Based Appointment System functionality.
3. The number of visits to the educative components of www.sjekkdeg.no will be larger in the appointment group than in the control group.
4. The time spent per visit to the website will be larger in the appointment group than in the control group, meaning a higher exposure to health information.
5. The visitors returning rate is larger in the appointment group than in the control group.

Conditions

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Chlamydia Trachomatis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Game-Based Appointment System

Users randomized to the www.sjekkdeg.no B version, consisting in the web app www.sjekkdeg.no including the Game-Based Appointment System

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Helse Nord

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University Hospital of North Norway

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elia Gabarron, MsC, Psych · NST-Norwegian Center for Integrated Care and Telemedicine; University Hospital of North Norway

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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