Clinical trials: Social Norms
Eating Behaviour
The Effect of a Descriptive Norm Promoting Vegetable Selection in a Workplace Restaurant Setting: an Observational Study
Encouraging individuals to eat fruit and vegetables is difficult. However, recent evidence suggests that using social-based information might help.
- Trial name
- NCT02603263
- Testing
- Social Norms Poster
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 9,445 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Birmingham
Physical Activity
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Physical Activity Program for Teenagers
The study aims: 1. To test the effect of providing social comparison information on increasing physical activity among Singaporean adolescents. 2.
- Trial name
- FIT-TEEN (NCT03081013)
- Testing
- Social information, Fitbit
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 311 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), Alcohol Misuse
PNF RCT to Decrease Alcohol Use and Increase HIV Prevention
Randomized controlled trial to test the preliminary efficacy and mediating mechanism of a personalized normative feedback intervention on behavioral intentions, heavy alcohol use, and HIV/STI prevention among adolescents and…
- Conditions
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), Alcohol Misuse, STI
- Trial name
- NCT07731932
- Testing
- PNF - HIV norms, PNF - Alcohol use norms, PNF - HIV and alcohol use norms
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 1,350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Development and Testing of Balika Bodhu
The study aims to generate knowledge on barriers experienced by married adolescent girls (MAGs) in demanding, accessing and practicing their rights regarding their sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including family planning…
- Trial name
- NCT06126770
- Testing
- The social norm intervention
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 2,918 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
SMS as an Incentive To Adhere (SITA) - An Intervention Communicating Social Norms by SMS to Improve ARV Adherence
The purpose of this study 'SMS as an Incentive To Adhere' (SITA) is to test two novel approaches of using SMS messages (provision of information about electronically measured own adherence, as well as in combination with group…
- Trial name
- SITA (NCT02514356)
- Testing
- Own adherence, Own and group level adherence
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 147 people
- Sponsor
- RAND
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, HIV Infections
Le Kip Kip: A Campaign to Change Social Norms and Build Sustainable Demand for PrEP Among Women in South Africa
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a social media campaign and community engagement activities to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among young women and to influence community norms around PrEP in…
- Trial name
- NCT05417620
- Testing
- Social Media Campaign, PrEP Champions, Community Mobilization
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 601 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tobacco Use
Address Tobacco Use Among Adolescents in Hong Kong
This study will examine the effectiveness of a social norms campaign in correcting smoking misperceptions, reducing smoking susceptibility and changing smoking-related behaviours in Hong Kong adolescents.
- Trial name
- NCT03264144
- Testing
- Social norms campaign
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 12,868 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Contraceptive Behavior, Social Norms
Impact of Gender-Transformative Interventions on Contraceptive Use and Reproductive Autonomy in Somalia
Since 2019, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has led family planning programming in Somalia under the Women's Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) program, funded by the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development…
- Trial name
- FPIL-SOM (NCT07902700)
- Testing
- Intensive Gender-Transformative Programming, Light-Touch Gender-Transformative Programming, Standard Family Planning Services (WISH-2)
- Where
- Somalia
- Volunteers
- 5,436 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guttmacher Institute
COVID-19
Impact of Nudges on Downloads of COVID-19 Exposure Notification Smartphone Apps: A Randomized Trial
Eligible participants who were active beneficiaries of a large insurer living in Pennsylvania were sent an email encouraging them to download the contact tracing app in Pennsylvania, COVID Alert PA.
- Trial name
- NCT05080179
- Testing
- Self-Benefit/Social Norm, Self-Benefit/No Social Norm, Other Benefit/Social Norm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16,903 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Attentional Bias, Smoking Cues
Trial on the Effect of E-cigarette Advertising on Cigarette Perceptions in Adolescents
This research aims to investigate how exposure to advertising for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (commonly called e-cigarettes) may lead to combustible smoking initiation in adolescents.
- Conditions
- Attentional Bias, Smoking Cues, Positive Perceptions About Cigarette Smoking, Social Norms
- Trial name
- NCT03786042
- Testing
- E-cigarette ad exposure, non e-cigarette TV commercials
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 139 people
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College
Nicotine Vaping
Pilot Study of the YES-CAN! Program to Prevent Youth Nicotine Vaping
The goal of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility of a randomized trial of the YES-CAN! (Youth Engaged Strategies to Change Adolescent Norms) program to prevent nicotine vaping among adolescents.
- Trial name
- YES-CAN! (NCT07009509)
- Testing
- YES-CAN! program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,166 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Violence
Using Media to Shift Social Norms of Violence Among Youth
The project will utilize a quasi-experimental design to examine the effectiveness of a community-level, three-year social norming campaign aimed at changing norms of violence among youth 10-24, with West Louisville (WL) as the…
- Trial name
- NCT02706145
- Testing
- Social norming campaign
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 8,037 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Louisville
Smoking, Adolescent Behavior
ADHAirE : a Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve the Implementation of Tobacco-free School Policies
The goal of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to learn if the set up of an advocacy coalition in secondary schools can improve the implementation of tobacco-free school policies (TFSP) to prevent adolescent smoking.
- Trial name
- NCT06655038
- Testing
- Advocacy coalition, Feedback
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Université Catholique de Louvain
Feedback, Psychological, Underage Alcohol Use
Experimental Test of Facebook Social Drinking Norms on Adolescent Alcohol Use
The proposed research will be the first study to focus on experimentally manipulating both injunctive and descriptive norms on social networking sites in order to elucidate the relationship between alcohol and abstainer displays…
- Conditions
- Feedback, Psychological, Underage Alcohol Use, Risk-Taking
- Trial name
- Network (NCT03159286)
- Testing
- Abstainer, Abstainer + User, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 306 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Prescribing, Off-Label
CMO Letter to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing Winter 2019/2020
This trial aims to reduce inappropriate prescription of antibiotics and broad spectrum antibiotics by general practitioners (GPs) in England.
- Trial name
- NCT04051281
- Testing
- Letter
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 2,963 people
- Sponsor
- Public Health England
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Covid19
mHealth Intervention for Increasing COVID-19 Prevention Practices With Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Uganda
Uganda hosts 1.4 million refugees, making it Sub-Saharan Africa's largest refugee host community and the third largest globally.
- Trial name
- NCT04631367
- Testing
- Kukaa Salama: mHealth intervention, Face Mask + Soap
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 330 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto