The purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a multi-component email health promotion program on employee adoption of health promoting behaviors and secondarily on health status, work productivity and health care costs.
The Specific Aims are: * To demonstrate the feasibility and assess the acceptability of email health promotion among diverse employee groups; * To evaluate short and intermediate-term changes in health behaviors (e.g., daily fruit/vegetable intake, weekly physical activity) at 6 and 12 months; * To assess change in health status (SF-12), work productivity, and healthcare costs among email program users and controls; * To identify person predictors of sustained voluntary participation in a 6 month email health promotion program among the workforce population; * To disseminate the results to maximize influence on e-health promotion, employer health promotion programs, health insurance policy, and research.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
2,000
Physical Activity
Fruit and Vegetable intake
Antecedents to behavior change
Health status
Work productivity
Costs
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