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Workplace-Sponsored Program to Reduce Obesity

NCT00123513 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3938

Last updated 2012-06-13

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity strategy to gain a broad understanding of the social and cultural role of food and physical activity among workers. Perspectives on innovative interventions that are socially feasible and culturally acceptable will also be obtained. Health lifestyle promotion interventions addressing portion control, healthy nutrition, and increasing physical activity will be tested.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Diet

Environmental changes in the food and physical activity environment. Cafeteria and vending machine changes, food brought from home, walking routes, and awareness building.

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Increase routing physical activity, walking routes, stairs intervention, etc.

BEHAVIORAL

Environment

Cafeteria and vending machine changes and identification of opportunities of physical activity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Rochester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Isabel D. Fernandez, MD, MPH, PhD · University of Rochester

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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