The investigators have created an interactive knee osteoarthritis (OA) risk calculator that estimates a user's risk of developing symptomatic knee OA as well as the user's risk for undergoing a total knee replacement (TKR) within their lifetime. To test the impact of the calculator, the investigators recruited OA-free subjects from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Participants were randomized to either access general information about OA or use the risk calculator in addition to accessing general OA information. The investigators hypothesized that participants randomized to the risk calculator arm would have more accurate perception of their knee OA risk and would have increased willingness to change risky behavior compared to the general OA information group.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
380
The investigators have developed a personalized risk calculator for knee osteoarthritis. This risk calculator uses the Osteoarthritis Policy Model to estimate an individual's risk of developing knee osteoarthritis within their lifetime based on demographic information and risk factors. It shows this information to the user with interactive graphs and compares their risk to the risk of an average American of the same age.
Subjects viewed generic (i.e. not personalized) information about osteoarthritis risk factors
Change in estimated lifetime knee OA risk
The difference between average lifetime knee osteoarthritis risk estimated by participants at baseline and average lifetime knee osteoarthritis risk estimated by participants after the intervention.
Time frame: 1 day
Change in estimated 10-year knee OA risk
The difference between average 10-year knee osteoarthritis risk estimated by participants at baseline and average 10-year knee osteoarthritis risk estimated by participants after the intervention.
Time frame: 1 day
Reaching an Action Stage on Diet Contemplation Ladder
The percentage of subjects who originally ranked themselves below an action stage (8 or higher) on a contemplation ladder for changing diet related behaviors and who moved to an action stage after the intervention.
Time frame: 1 day
Reaching an Action Stage on Exercise Contemplation Ladder
The percentage of subjects who originally ranked themselves below an action stage (8 or higher) on a contemplation ladder for changing exercise related behaviors and who moved to an action stage after the intervention.
Time frame: 1 day
Reaching an Action Stage on Weight Control Contemplation Ladder
The percentage of subjects who originally ranked themselves below an action stage (8 or higher) on a contemplation ladder for changing weight control behaviors and who moved to an action stage after the intervention.
Time frame: 1 day
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