Online Tailored Interventions & Relational Agents for Exercise and Sun Protection

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Sedentary, Skin Cancer

In brief

This study targets two major risk factors for cancer; is designed to treat the behaviors on a population basis, using proactive recruitment strategies; intervenes on multiple behaviors simultaneously, thereby producing greater impacts for cancer prevention; utilizes one of the most promising approaches to low cost population based interventions for health-related behavior change, namely the internet; and develops and tests a promising new approach to increasing the utilization and effectiveness of internet-based interventions, relational agents. The primary aims are: (1) To develop and assess the effectiveness of a tailored internet intervention on a national sample; (2) To develop and assess the effectiveness of the internet intervention enhanced by a relational agent; and (3) To determine if the intervention with the relational agent can outperform the regular tailored internet intervention.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT01458002
Run by: University of Rhode Island
People needed: 1364
Starts: 2009-04-01
Expected to finish: 2013-05-01
Last updated by the study team: 2016-05-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

English speaking
access to computer
willing to download materials

You may not qualify if…

heart attack in past 6 months
kidney failure during dialysis
currently receiving chemotherapy or radiation for cancer
had a seizure in the past 6 months
had a leg or pelvic fracture in the past 6 months
legally blind
regularly use a wheelchair
(women only) currently pregnant or plan to be pregnant in the next 6 months

Where it is running

University of Rhode Island — Kingston, Rhode Island, United States

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