System and method for monitoring efficacy of web-based online behavioral clinical study
First Claim
1. A method of evaluating the efficacy of online tailored behavioral material on human subjects comprising:
- conducting a clinical study among human subjects, wherein the efficacy of the tailored behavioral materials on the human subjects is assessed through online remote interaction.
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Abstract
A system and method which evaluates the efficacy of tailored online health related behavioral materials provided to a human subject. More particularly, a method of evaluating the efficacy of online behavioral material in a clinical study including enrolling a plurality of customers, performing a computerized initial, randomly segregating the plurality of customers into a first group which accesses tailored behavioral material online and a second group which accesses non-tailored behavioral material online, providing the first group with tailored behavioral material, providing the second group with non-tailored behavioral material, providing the first group and the second group with a computerized first and second series of questions, analyzing the responses of the first group and the second group to the first and second series of questions according to predetermined factors, and evaluating the efficacy of the behavioral material.
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35 Claims
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1. A method of evaluating the efficacy of online tailored behavioral material on human subjects comprising:
conducting a clinical study among human subjects, wherein the efficacy of the tailored behavioral materials on the human subjects is assessed through online remote interaction.
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2. A method of evaluating the efficacy of online behavioral material in a clinical study comprising:
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conducting an online clinical study among consumers; and
determining the efficacy of the behavioral material. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of evaluating the efficacy of online smoking cessation behavioral material in a clinical study comprising:
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enrolling a plurality of customers sufficiently meeting predetermined requirements for the online clinical study, performing a computerized initial evaluation of the customer'"'"'s in order to obtain the customer'"'"'s particular characteristics wherein the initial evaluation is performed during a predetermined period of time in the beginning of the online clinical study and within a predetermined time of the customer'"'"'s target quit date (TQD), wherein the TQD is the day designated by the customer for the quitting of smoking, wherein the initial evaluation assists in the tailoring of smoking cessation material provided to a customer randomly segregating the plurality of customers into a first group which accesses tailored smoking cessation material online and a second group which accesses non-tailored smoking cessation material online, providing the first group with smoking cessation material tailored to a particular customer'"'"'s characteristics wherein the customer reviews the available behavioral material online according to a predetermined plan, providing the second group with non-tailored smoking cessation material generally determined to assist with smoking cessation, providing the first group and the second group with a computerized first series of questions after a predetermined time in the study, wherein the first series of questions address the customer'"'"'s responses to the smoking cessation material which has been made available to the particular customer, providing the first group and the second group with a computerized second series of questions after a predetermined time in the study after the first series of questions, wherein the second series of questions address the customer'"'"'s responses to the smoking cessation material which has been made available to the particular customer, analyzing the responses of the first group and the second group to the first and second series of questions according to predetermined factors, and evaluating the efficacy of the tailored online smoking cessation material with the non-tailored online smoking cessation material accordingly. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A system, for evaluating the efficacy of online behavioral material in a clinical study, comprising:
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a website of a medical provider through which a customer registers for an online clinical study;
a customer computer, accessing the website of the medical provider;
a network connecting the host computer and the customer computer;
an automated education system of the medical provider, providing the customer with tailored behavioral material; and
an analyzing mechanism which evaluates the efficacy of the behavioral materials according to information input by a customer computer. - View Dependent Claims (35)
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