Communicating Multiple Disease Risks

NCT ID: NCT02621671

Last Updated: 2017-11-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

1191 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-04-01

Study Completion Date

2017-06-27

Brief Summary

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Epidemiology seeks to improve public health by identifying risk factors for cancer and other diseases and conveying that information to relevant audiences. The audience is presumed to understand and use that information to make appropriate decisions about lifestyle behaviors and medical treatments. Yet, even though a single risk factor can affect the risk of multiple health outcomes, this information is seldom communicated to people in a way that optimizes their understanding of the importance of engaging in a single healthy behavior. Providing individuals with the ability to understand how a single behavior (obtaining sufficient physical activity) could affect their risk of developing multiple diseases could foster a more coherent and meaningful picture of the behavior's importance in reducing health risks, increase motivation and intentions to engage in the behavior, and over time improve public health.

The proposed study translates epidemiological data about five diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality (i.e., colon cancer, breast cancer (women), heart disease, diabetes, and stroke) into a visual display that conveys individualized risk estimates in a comprehensible, meaningful, and useful way to diverse lay audiences.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Healthy

Keywords

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Healthy Volunteers

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Arm 1: Cognitive Interviews

* Participants will complete several survey items, view 1 of 8 disease risk pictures (selected at random), and then complete further survey questions.
* Participants will then be recorded giving their opinions on the remaining 7 disease risk pictures which depict the hypothetical risk of disease.
* The entire visit will take no more than 90 minutes with no follow-up.
* The first 10-20 participants will be randomized to this arm.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cognitive interview

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Survey

Intervention Type OTHER

Arm 2: Experimental survey

* Participants will be randomly assigned by GfK's computer to one of the 12 experimental conditions.
* After completing questions about information seeking and physical activity, the participants will read a short scenario that describes the purpose of a risk assessment tool and ask them to imagine that they had just entered their information into such a tool.
* Participants will see whichever risk ladder corresponds to the experimental condition to which they were assigned.
* The hypothetical display will be consistent with a display generated for an individual whose risk profile includes risk increasing and decreasing factors, but does not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Survey

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Cognitive interview

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Survey

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 30-65 years of age
* Able to read and communicate in English
* Not meeting national guidelines for aerobic physical activity (at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic physical activity)

Exclusion Criteria

* Less than 30 years of age
* Older than 65 years of age
* Not able to read and communicate in English
* Meets national guidelines for aerobic physical activity (at least 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic physical activity)
Minimum Eligible Age

30 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Washington University School of Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Erika Waters, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Washington University School of Medicine

Locations

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Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Related Links

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http://www.siteman.wustl.edu

Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine

Other Identifiers

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201501028

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id