Recruiting

Educational MessagingThe Tick App: Changing Behaviors With Educational Messaging

Sponsor:

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Code:

NCT06880692

Conditions

Tick Bites

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Educational Materials delivered via the Tick App

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this work is to evaluate the use of ecological momentary assessments as a tool to assess risk and risk factors for tick encounters and tick-borne diseases. This study will be conducted across the United States, with a focus the upper Midwest and Northeast and with a focus on Wisconsin and will enroll up to 1000 people.

Conditions

Tick Bites

Study ID

NCT06880692

Start date

Mar 31, 2020

Status verified date

Oct, 2025

Completion date

Jul, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Will to participate in 7 days worth of daily activity logs within the Tick App.
be able and willing to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

Completes less than 7 days worth of daily logs or completes 7+ daily logs but not within 12 months.

Study Design

Enrollment

40000 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Tick App Educational Materials

no intervention: No Educational Messaging

Interventions

Educational Materials delivered via the Tick App

Education about tick bite prevention

Primary outcome measure

Change in number of tick prevention behaviors [ Time Frame: up to 12 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Cassie Halvorsen

608-265-4741 chalvorsen2@wisc.edu

Locations

University of Illinois

Recruiting

Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801

Michigan State University

Recruiting

East Lansing, Michigan, United States, 48824

Contacts

517-353-1737 tsao@msu.edu

Columbia University

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10027

Principal Investigator:

Maria Diuk-Wasser

Washington State University

Recruiting

Pullman, Washington, United States, 99164

Principal Investigator:

Pilar Fernandez

More Information

Sponsor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Last update posted

Aug 13, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2025

Keywords

tick education
behavior change
tick bite prevention

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Wisconsin, Madison on 2026-08-13.