Act Healthy! A Controlled Trial of Worksite Health Promotion
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Act Healthy!Behavioral: Delayed treatment control
- Registration Number
- NCT00924924
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 91
- full-time employee of the University of Missouri
- inability to read and speak in English
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Act Healthy! Act Healthy! Immediate treatment group of six-weeks of classes in self-management training for healthy behaviors Delayed treatment control Delayed treatment control Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training Delayed treatment control Act Healthy! Delayed self-management training group - begins following completion of the experimental group training
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Self-report of health behaviors pre-, post intervention; 3-month follow up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method self-efficacy for health behaviors pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up Stages of change scale pre- and post-intervention; 3-month follow up
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Missouri
🇺🇸Columbia, Missouri, United States