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Screening and Educating Emergency Department Attendees on Health-risk Behaviours

NCT05680519 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2026-03-19

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Summary

Aim:

To determine the feasibility and potential efficacy of a proactive approach using a brief self-determination theory-based intervention to help people attending the ED modify their health-risk behaviours and lead healthier lives.

Objectives

1. To assess the recruitment, participation and retention rates of targeted participants in an emergency department
2. To ascertain the feasibility of screening, recruiting and educating people to change health-risk behaviours in the emergency department

Conditions

  • Health-risk Behaviours
  • Non Communicable Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

theory of planned behaviour, foot-in-the-door technique, and self-determination theory intervention

The participants will also be asked to choose the goal that they consider easiest to achieve and encouraged to quit health-risk behaviours. The research assistant will assist in achieving the participant's health-related goals by sending WhatsApp/WeChat messages or via telephone calls once per week for the first 6 months.

OTHER

Control group

The participants will be simply advised to modify their health-risk behaviours and/or adopt a healthy lifestyle practice. In addition, the research assistant will send regular SMS messages to the participants at a similar frequency to the intervention group, but these messages will contain only general health advice.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung William Li, PhD · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-20
Primary Completion
2024-08-31
Completion
2024-08-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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