Cost Effective Health Promotion for Older Adults

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Working Adults
• Interventions: Behavioral: RealAge; Behavioral: COACH

• Registration Number: NCT00953030
• Lead Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago

Brief Summary

This project tests the cost-effectiveness of two promising evidence-based health promotion/ behavior change interventions. The first intervention is the COACH Program, a revised version of the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) that has been implemented to date with older adults at multiple Senior Centers across the country (Leveille et al, 1998). The second is the web-based RealAge program which is also being implemented for older adults at multiple sites nationally and internationally. The Coach program combines a web-based risk assessment with individualized counselling. In contrast, RealAge is a totally web-based program.

The specific hypotheses that we will test in the proposed cost-effectiveness study are shown below.

Primary Study Hypotheses:

COACH participants will experience significantly greater reductions in absenteeism, disability days, and healthcare use and cost at 6 and 12 months than RealAge participants. Participants in both the COACH and RealAge treatment groups will experience significantly greater reductions in absenteeism, disability days, and healthcare use and cost than control group participants at 6 and 12 months.

Secondary Study Hypotheses:

COACH participants will experience significantly greater levels of adherence to health promotion Action Plans and greater reduction in weight, body mass index, blood pressure and depression and greater increase in vitality and quality of life than RealAge participants at 6 and 12 months. Participants in both the COACH and RealAge treatment arms will experience significantly better outcomes on these measures at 6 and 12 months than control group participants.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-09
• Primary Completion: 2008-07
• Study Completion: 2008-07
• Status Verified: 2009-08
• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-08-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-08-05
• Study First Posted: 2009-08-06
• Last Update Posted: 2009-08-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 423

Inclusion Criteria

• Current employee of the University of Illinois at Chicago
• 40+ years of age

Exclusion Criteria

• Those not currently employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Those under the age of 40

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
RealAge	RealAge	a web-based health risk assessment and risk profile with disease-specific follow-up reinforcement modules
COACH	COACH	web-based risk assessments with an action plan that is negotiated with a "Coach" who provides personalized follow-up reinforcement

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Illinois Chicago; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States