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Trial reportMaturitas2025

Positive impact of a menopause website - MyMenoplan.org - on treatment intentions, knowledge, and decision making: A randomized controlled trial.

Leslie B Snyder, Katherine M Newton, Hui Xin Ng, Susan D Reed, Katherine A Guthrie, Viviana Zambrano, Andrea Z LaCroix

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Trial report in Maturitas, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05299983 (MsFLASH), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05299983 nacompletednot on this map

MsFLASH: Living a Healthy Menopause, Aim 2 Randomized Controlled Trial of MyMenoPlan

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, San DiegoRan2022 to 2022Enrolled410ConditionsMenopause, Premenopause, PostmenopauseArmsMyMenoPlan, Control
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Leslie B SnyderDepartment of Communication, University of Connecticut, 377 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1259, USA. Electronic address: leslie.snyder@uconn.edu.
Katherine M NewtonKaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite, 1360, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hui Xin NgDepartment of Cognitive Science, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: hxng@ucsd.edu.
Susan D ReedDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: reeds@uw.edu.
Katherine A GuthrieDivision of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: kguthrie@fredhutch.org.
Viviana ZambranoDepartment of Communication, University of Connecticut, 377 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1259, USA.
Andrea Z LaCroixHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: alacroix@ucsd.edu.

Funding

MsFLASH: Living a Healthy MenopauseR01AG048209 · NIA · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI GUTHRIE, KATHERINE ADAMS, LACROIX, ANDREA Z. · 2015 to 2019
$7.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveAssess the impact of a new website, MyMenoplan.org, on menopause knowledge, decision-making progress, treatment and coping intentions among people experiencing perimenopause and menopause. The website was designed to provide women and their clinicians with comprehensive, evidence-based information and decision-making tools about a broad range of symptoms and treatments, address common questions and facilitate conversations with clinicians when desired. STUDY

designWomen were recruited online and randomized to interact with the MyMenoplan.org website created by MsFLASH investigators (n = 200) or control websites (n = 210) for at least 20 min before completing an online survey. Women in the control arm could choose any website(s), including three suggested high-quality websites from governmental or non-profit organizations. Fraud-detection protocols were followed. Outcome differences by arm were estimated via adjusted linear regression models. PRIMARY OUTCOMES: Behavioral change intentions, menopause knowledge, decision-making progress, and user website experience.

results99 % of controls visited at least one recommended website. Compared with the control arm, the MyMenoplan.org arm reported significantly higher levels of intent to change treatment (3.87 vs. 3.61), knowledge of menopause symptoms and treatments (4.17 vs. 3.85), treatment decision-making progress (3.94 vs. 3.71), clarity about benefits and risks of treatments (4.04 vs. 3.81), perceived website quality (4.05 vs. 3.70), intentions to return to the website (4.40 vs. 3.97), and likelihood of recommending it to others (4.35 vs. 4.04; each p < 0.001).

conclusionMyMenoplan.org is the first NIH-funded website shown to be effective in helping women learn and make decisions about management of the menopause transition. The website serves as a model for providing much-needed, evidence-based information for health-care providers and women nearing or in perimenopause and menopause. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05299983.

Indexed as

Decision MakingHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeInternetMenopausePatient Education as TopicAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultFemaleHumansIntentionMiddle AgedDecision makingKnowledgeMenopauseRandomized controlled trialTreatment intentionsWebsite

Identifiers

PMID40505527
PMCPMC13340277

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