The Power of Curiosity: Leveraging Curiosity to Motivate People to Complete Health Risk Assessments

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Conditions studied: Intention, Exploratory Behavior

In brief

The investigators will work with one of Vitality's partner corporations to test whether curiosity can motivate employees to follow through on their virtuous intentions and complete their annual health risk assessment (VHR). Employees will receive email messages that contain either a curiosity-inducing question or a standard encouragement message. The investigators predict that presenting people with curiosity-arousing questions will make them more likely to complete a health risk assessment, as compared to standard messages.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01875913

Run by

Harvard University

People needed

10095

Starts

2013-06-01

Expected to finish

2013-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-08-31

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Employees at Vitality's partner's worksites that are in Vitality database
• Must have email address on file

You may not qualify if…

• Employees that have already completed their VHR by June 11, 2013

Where it is running

• Harvard Kennedy School — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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