Licensing Flu Shot Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Flu
• Interventions: Behavioral: Challenging list of healthy habits; Behavioral: Control; Behavioral: Easy list of healthy habits

• Registration Number: NCT01440205
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

The mailer will encourage all employees of one of Evive's partner companies to attend an on-site free flu shot clinic they are offering in the fall of 2011. The research will examine differences in follow-through on getting a flu shot at an on-site clinic among the targeted population during the \~1 month period when clinics are being offered (following the mailing) as a function of experimental condition.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-09
• Study First Submitted: 2011-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-09-23
• Study First Posted: 2011-09-26
• Primary Completion: 2011-10
• Study Completion: 2012-05
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-09-13
• Last Update Posted: 2016-09-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6098

Inclusion Criteria

• Employee at partner corporation

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Exclusion Criteria

• Employee already received a flu shot this season

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Challenging list of healthy habits	Challenging list of healthy habits	In this condition, participants will be prompted to think about a list of healthy behaviors and check off (privately - they will never send this flyer back or show it to anyone) whether "yes" they conform to the healthy habit or "no" they do not. The list of healthy behaviors is a list that most people will find fairly difficult, and thus most participants will answer "no" to each habit. The final question will be a prompt to get a flu shot. The hope is that when people realize how unhealthy their habits are, it will seem wise to engage in one healthy habit that is easy (to make up for other bad behaviors) and receive a flu shot.
Control	Control	A control condition with no list of healthy behaviors.
Easy list of healthy habits	Easy list of healthy habits	In this condition, participants will be prompted to think about a list of healthy behaviors and check off (privately - they will never send this flyer back or show it to anyone) whether "yes" they conform to the healthy habit or "no" they do not. The list of healthy behaviors is a list that most people will find fairly easy, and thus most participants will answer "yes" to each habit. The final question will be a prompt to get a flu shot. The hope is that when people realize how healthy their habits are, it will seem natural to them to engage in yet another healthy habit and receive a flu shot.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Participants that receive a flu shot	up to two months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States