Clinical trials: Social Norms
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
Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer
Momentum Project Heidelberg - Dealing Actively With a Cancerous Disease
The study, investigates the current physical activity promotion practices among physicians and nurses, as well as social norms toward physical activity during treatment among cancer patients and among physicians and nurses who…
- Conditions
- Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Physicians
- Trial name
- NCT02678832
- Volunteers
- 2,200 people
- Sponsor
- Heidelberg University
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
Healthy
Improving Physician Vaccine Recommendation Using Social Norms, Trust, and Presumptive Language
This research examines vaccination recommendation perceptions and behaviors of physicians and advanced practice providers.
- Trial name
- NCT05957393
- Testing
- Quantity of vaccination recommendations, Quality of vaccination recommendations, Control
- Where
- 3 sites in United States, Brazil
- Volunteers
- 447 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
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
Food Selection, Environmental Exposure
Dismantling the U.S. Social Norm of the "Kids' Food" Archetype (REACH Project)
This project is the first stage of a health promotion campaign to shift social norms about marketing and feeding children ultra-processed foods.
- Trial name
- NCT06266533
- Testing
- Conventional Ultra-processed Food Nutrition Education, Arts-based Ultra-processed Food Nutrition Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Hypertension, Medication Adherence
Social Norms and Antihypertensive Medication Adherence
The study objective is to build group social norms to improve individual adhere to antihypertensive medications. Financial incentives are provided to individuals contingent upon group behavioral changes.
- Trial name
- NCT03292393
- Testing
- Financial reward, Social norms, Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida International University
Coronary Artery Disease, Proteus Syndrome
Informed Consent for Whole Genome Sequencing: Ideals and Norms Referenced by Early Participants
Since 2007, the cost of sequencing a diploid human genome has fallen dramatically, from approximately $70 million to $20,000. As affordable sequencing platforms become more widely available, the advancement of biomedical science…
- Conditions
- Coronary Artery Disease, Proteus Syndrome, Coffin - Sins Syndrome, Familial Isolated Hyperparathyroidism
- Trial name
- NCT01369953
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Health and Social Services, Population Segmentation Healthcare
Defining and Evaluating Norms for Health and Social Service (HASS) Use
Background In view of expected growth of the older population in Singapore in the next decades, the volume and complexity of needs for health care services is expected to increase, which amplifies stress on the current healthcare…
- Trial name
- NCT03177200
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 1,006 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Singapore
Norm, Social, Autonomy
Gender-Transformative Interventions and Normative Beliefs About Reproductive Decision-Making
The ECOVI trial is a two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT) conducted in rural and urban communities across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan, India, and funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
- Conditions
- Norm, Social, Autonomy, Relation, Family
- Trial name
- Beyond (NCT07734961)
- Testing
- Let Us Grow Together: Economic Wellbeing for Families
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 2,276 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Technical University of Munich
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Earning Outcomes
What Works to Prevent Violence - Malawi Moyo Olemekeza
Violence against women is complex and must be addressed at multiple levels, with leadership from women themselves on how to bring about positive change to free women and girls from daily experiences of violence and to promote…
- Conditions
- Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Earning Outcomes, Norms, Social
- Trial name
- WW-M-MO (NCT07502183)
- Testing
- SASA! Together, MO
- Where
- Malawi
- Volunteers
- 1,700 people
- Sponsor
- George Washington University
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
Alcohol Drinking, Social Norms
Implementation of a Web-based Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Intervention for Collegiate Student-athletes
The broad aim of the proposed study is to use the innovative Multiphase Optimization Strategy to develop a highly effective Internet-delivered intervention, myPlaybook, for the prevention of substance use among college…
- Conditions
- Alcohol Drinking, Social Norms, Expectations, Harm Reduction
- Trial name
- NCT04253158
- Testing
- Educational standard, Educational standard and Harm prevention, Educational standard and Expectancies
- Volunteers
- 3,859 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Prevention Strategies, LLC
Binge Drinking, Alcohol Drinking
Alcohol Consumption: Norms, Identities, & Motivations
The emergence of new problematic alcohol consumption practices among young people requires new dynamics in prevention strategies.
- Trial name
- ALCONIM (NCT06447350)
- Testing
- Induced hypocrisy, social identity mapping, Motivational modeling
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 240 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen
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
HIV Infection, Adherence
Social Norms and Priming to Improve Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy and Retention in Care
Interventions incorporating constructs from behavioral economics and psychology have the potential to enhance HIV 'treatment as prevention' (TasP) strategies.
- Trial name
- NCT02938533
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 438 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Berkeley
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
HPV Vaccination, Uptake Vaccination
PREVENT Pilot HPV - Related Cancers Trial
This study will serve as one of the first to develop and test the effectiveness of strategies to promote HPV vaccination among diverse rural parents and caregivers of children ages 9-17 years in the Mountain West.
- Conditions
- HPV Vaccination, Uptake Vaccination, Series Completion
- Trial name
- NCT06738355
- Testing
- PREVENT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 335 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
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
Diet Quality
Diet Improvement Through Normative Experimentation
This study aims to use a three-arm randomized control trial (RCT) implemented in a fully functional experimental online grocery store, to explore the effects of two low-cost information and incentive-based strategies.
- Trial name
- DINE (NCT05070442)
- Testing
- Norm-based messaging and peer comparison features, Financial Incentives leveraging on loss aversion
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 248 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School