NHS Health Check Leaflet

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Randomized controlled trial to compare the effect of two new behaviourally enhanced NHS Health Check leaflets and the current nationally recommended leaflet on uptake of NHS Health Checks

• IRAS ID

  242350

• Contact name

  T Chadborn

• Contact email

  tim.chadborn@phe.gov.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Public Health England

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 2 days

• Research summary

  The NHS Health Check is a significant part of the strategy to tackle premature mortality and promote healthy lifestyles. Public Health England aspires to an uptake rate of 75% but national uptake is less than 50%. This study aims to assess the impact of two new behaviourally informed NHS Health Check leaflets on the uptake of NHS Health Checks, by randomizing the patients in Lewisham and NE Lincolnshire to the different leaflets and comparing patient-level uptake data. The study will test whether a shorter risk-framed leaflet or a shorter positively-framed leaflet will be more effective than the current national leaflet at encouraging uptake of the NHS Health Check.

• REC name

  London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/LO/0528

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 Mar 2018

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion