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Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19

NCT04830761 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 425

Last updated 2023-05-08

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Summary

Project BECCCS (=Behavior Change in Context to Contain the Spread of COVID-19) aims to optimise and test a behaviour change intervention to promote correct hand hygiene at key times in the short and long term.

The study's specific aims are:

1. Optimisation phase: Identify the most effective combination and sequence of three different intervention modules (habit, motivation, social norms), and to assess usability and fidelity measures in order to optimise the intervention
2. Evaluation phase: Test the final intervention against an active control group (basic app content including "Federal Office of Public Health" advice)

Conditions

  • Hand Hygiene

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivation

The key constructs targeted by the motivational module are attitudes towards the target behavior, risk perception, outcome expectancies and self-efficacy. The intervention includes the following techniques: information about health consequences, salience of consequences, goal setting (behavior), problem solving, verbal persuasion about capabilities, focus on past success (Michie et al., 2013)

BEHAVIORAL

Habit

The goal of the habit module is to guide participants to perform correct hand hygiene at self-selected key times repeatedly. The aim is that the behavior will be translated into a habit. The intervention includes the following techniques: Information about antecedents, self-monitoring of behavior, action planning, prompts/cues, habit formation, behavioral practice/ rehearsal, prompts/cues (physical cue) (Michie et al., 2013).

BEHAVIORAL

Social

The key constructs targeted by the social module are perceived norms including descriptive norms and injunctive norm. The intervention includes the following techniques: Monitoring of behavior by others, social incentive, social comparison, social reward, restructuring the physical environment, information about others approval, credible source, information about health consequences, feedback on behavior (Michie et al., 2013).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ursula Wirz Stiftung

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dario Baretta, Dr. · University of Bern

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-26
Primary Completion
2022-12-31
Completion
2023-04-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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