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NCT Number: NCT00924924

Act Healthy! A Controlled Trial of Worksite Health Promotion

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy

Age range

21 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • full-time employee of the University of Missouri

Exclusion criteria

  • inability to read and speak in English

Treatment and study plan

Act Healthy!

Behavioral

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

Other names: self-management, health promotion, worksite wellness, behavior change

Delayed treatment control

Behavioral

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

Primary outcomes

  1. Self-report of health behaviors

    Time frame: pre-, post intervention; 3-month follow up

Secondary outcomes

  1. self-efficacy for health behaviors

    Time frame: pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up

  2. Stages of change scale

    Time frame: pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Missouri-Columbia

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Jun 19, 2009
Registry last updated
Oct 5, 2016

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