Clinical trials: Norms, Social
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
Physical Activity
Using Social Norms to Encourage People to Exercise More
The investigators are interested in using social norms to motivate people to sign up for a 100-day exercise challenge and exploring how to make social norms messages more effective.
- Trial name
- NCT02907164
- Testing
- Email invitation, Social norm, Intrinsic, health motive
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
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
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
College Drinking, Underage Drinking
Revolutionizing Normative Re-education
Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF), the most widely-used college alcohol intervention approach, suffers from several limitations innovatively remedied in the current proposal through CampusGANDR, a smartphone-based app for…
- Conditions
- College Drinking, Underage Drinking, Alcohol Use Disorder
- Trial name
- GANDR (NCT04356261)
- Testing
- Gamified Personalized Normative Feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,143 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Loyola Marymount University
Behavior, Social, Norms, Social
The Norms and Networks Sanitation Study in India in Tamil Nadu, India
The objective of this research is to evaluate the impact of a multi-level behavior change intervention designed to promote toilet construction, exclusive toilet use and maintenance in peri-urban communities of Tamil Nadu.
- Trial name
- LENNS (NCT04269824)
- Testing
- Behavioral intervention package
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 22,700 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
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
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency, Nutritional Deficiencies
Reducing Anemia Among Preconception Women in Nepal Through a Group Norm and Micronutrient Supplementation Intervention
Preconception micronutrient status (including anemia) is a critical determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health that remains undervalued in Nepal. However, providing micronutrient supplements (MMS) alone is not enough.
- Conditions
- Anemia, Iron-Deficiency, Nutritional Deficiencies, Adherence, Norms, Social
- Trial name
- Sumadhur (NCT06810440)
- Testing
- Sumadhur, Multiple micronutrient supplement MMS
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 2,100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
A Gamified, Social Media Inspired Personalized Normative Feedback Alcohol Intervention for Sexual Minority Women
Sexual minority women in the United States are more likely to drink alcohol, engage in heavy drinking, and experience alcohol-related problems than are heterosexual women.
- Conditions
- Alcohol Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol; Harmful Use
- Trial name
- NCT03884478
- Testing
- Personalized Normative Feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Loyola Marymount 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
Medication Adherence, Hypertension
Social Norms, Messengers, and Processing Fluency to Increase Hypertension Medication Adherence
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries ages 65-79 and insured by Humana with at least two unique fills of hypertension medication within the 2023 calendar year and adherence level between 60 and 85% will be identified using Humana…
- Trial name
- NCT06066541
- Testing
- Scorecard, Social norms, Messenger effects
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 65,177 people
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Healthy
Enduring Exercise Habits: Trending Norms
Learning that most people engage in an activity can be a powerful motivator to adoption. But are there instances in which people can similarly find motivation from learning that only a minority of others engage in a behavior?…
- Trial name
- NCT03627871
- Testing
- Majority Norm, Trending Minority Norm, Minority Norm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
HPV Vaccination, Uptake Vaccination
PREVENT 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
- NCT07217145
- Testing
- PREVENT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,455 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
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
Social Skills, Self-Criticism
Development and Pilot Trial of an Intervention to Reduce Disclosure Recipients Negative Social Reactions and Victims Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate an intervention, Supporting Survivors and Self: An Intervention for Social Supports of Survivors of Partner Abuse and Sexual Aggression (SSS).
- Conditions
- Social Skills, Self-Criticism, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT03488927
- Testing
- Supporting Survivors and Self: An Intervention for Social Supports of Survivors of Partner Abuse and Sexual Aggression (SSS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,268 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Hampshire
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
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
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
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
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