A Web-based Tailored Health Behavior Intervention for Breast and Colon Cancer Survivors (eWellness)

This study is adapted from the WATCH (Wellness for African Americans Through Churches) Project. WATCH was a randomized trial among 587 African American members of 12 rural North Carolina churches that demonstrated the effectiveness of a mailed tailored print and video intervention consisting of four individually tailored newsletters and targeted videos to improve diet and physical activity behaviors: there were significant improvements in fruit and vegetable consumption (0.6 servings) and recreational physical activity (2.5 MET-hours per week), and a non-significant decrease in fat intake in the intervention churches. The overall goal of this application is to conduct a study (called "eWellness") to investigate whether the WATCH tailored print messages and videos can be effectively and efficiently disseminated to a different population (breast and colon cancer survivors) and using a different delivery channel (electronic technology via the internet and world wide web.