Act Healthy! A Controlled Trial of Worksite Health Promotion

NCT ID: NCT00924924

Last Updated: 2016-10-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 91 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-10-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to determine if a worksite wellness intervention using a theoretically-based self-management model increases confidence for carrying out healthy behaviors and improves health practices of participating employees. The research questions are: 1) does the intervention produce between group differences in behavior self-efficacy and actual health behaviors, 2) are self-efficacy and performance of health behaviors related, and 3) do changes in self-efficacy result in changes in behavior.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this project is to see if a six-week education program called Act Healthy! led by trained volunteers from the UM T.E. Atkins Wellness Program is able to help people who take the classes improve their confidence in their ability to choose good health behaviors and carry out new behaviors. The project will use the Stanford University Self-management education model and train volunteers to be teachers. People who work on the MU campus will be recruited to take a 50-minute class once a week for six weeks. Class members will complete questionnaires before and after the class and again three months later that ask about their health behaviors and confidence to perform health behaviors. This information will be analyzed to determine if the classes were effective in helping people act in healthier ways.

Conditions

Healthy

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Act Healthy!

Immediate treatment group of six-weeks of classes in self-management training for healthy behaviors

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Act Healthy!

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Six-week class of 50 minute sessions of self-management training for health behaviors

Delayed treatment control

Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Act Healthy!

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Six-week class of 50 minute sessions of self-management training for health behaviors

Delayed treatment control

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training

Interventions

Act Healthy!

Six-week class of 50 minute sessions of self-management training for health behaviors

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Delayed treatment control

Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

self-management; health promotion; worksite wellness; behavior change

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• full-time employee of the University of Missouri

Exclusion Criteria

• inability to read and speak in English

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Missouri-Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Marian A Minor, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Missouri-Columbia

Locations

University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

1141037

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id