Testing a Personally Controlled Health Record to Ameliorate Influenza at MIT

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Conditions studied: Influenza

In brief

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effects on influenza related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of exposure to tailored/targeted health messages and contextualized information about influenza like illness delivered to subjects through a personally controlled health record system. The main study hypothesis is that exposure to more intensive levels of personalized and contextualized information about risk will result in increased knowledge about influenza, greater attributions of immunization safety and efficacy, improved health protecting behaviors including higher levels of appropriate immunization.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00531700

Run by

Boston Children's Hospital

People needed

800

Starts

2007-10-01

Expected to finish

2009-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-05-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Ages 18 and over
• English speaker
• Affiliated with study site

You may not qualify if…

• Younger than 18
• No access to computers or the internet

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital Boston — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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