DWELL: Design For Wellness - An Online Intervention To Create Healthier Home Environments

Summary

Design for wellness (DWELL) is an online Facebook intervention developed to effectively cause participants to design their home environments for wellness. Also, to improve health behaviors (specifically: healthy nutrition, physical activity, smoke free home and hygiene); to improve awareness of the importance of the environment in healthy behaviors; and to improve overall wellness. The research will follow qualitative methods in early stages for a deep understanding of participants' needs and inputs, complimented by a rigorous, quantitative approach using randomized controlled trail (RCT) for program evaluation. Participants are Israeli mothers to children up to 18 years old with Facebook profile, who are often in Israel responsible for household management and raising the family. The program will provide the participants with an accessible and convenient online setting for active and group oriented collaborative learning, in informal personalized environment. Motivating the participants to enhance their engagement in DWELL online community is expected to encourage the participants to design their home environment for wellness and improve their health behaviors and overall wellness.

Conditions

• Design For Wellness
• Wellness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Design For Wellness (DWELL)

Design for wellness is an online Facebook intervention. During 3 months intervention period, participants in the intervention group will be exposed to contents on their newsfeed (posts on Facebook wall), and also be expected and encouraged to create new content themselves. The contents will be interactive and involve different modes of delivery, as audio and video, to reinforce active learning. Participants will be part of DWELL Facebook group community and will be empowered to read and control cues in the environment, by developing skills to enhance their self-efficacy.

BEHAVIORAL

Wait list control group

Wait list control group will get no intervention during the study period. Participants will answer questionnaires pre, mid and post intervention. A delayed form of the intervention will be available to them after the close of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Miami

  collaborator OTHER

• Laura J. Rosen

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Tal Aperman-Itzhak, PhD Student · School of Public Health, Dept. of Health Promotion, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-11-25

Primary Completion

2020-10-31

Completion

2021-07-31

Countries

• Israel

Study Locations