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Environmental Intervention for Weight Gain Prevention

NCT00708461 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1747

Last updated 2019-11-01

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Summary

The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a multicomponent worksite-based, environmental intervention in reducing weight increase and obesity over time in working adults.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

weight gain prevention

1. Changes in the food environment that increase the availability of healthy foods and beverages, reduce food and beverage portion sizes, reduce prices on healthy food items, and increase prices on less healthy food items. 2. Changes in the activity environment that increase cues and incentives for walking at work and at home, using stairs, and to increase exposure of employees to information about active recreational opportunities at work and at home. 3. Changes to the environment to increase cues and incentives for regular weight monitoring by providing scales at convenient locations. 4. Changes in the informational environment that increase frequency of exposure of the employee population to accurate information about healthy food and activity choices.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Minnesota

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert W Jeffery, PhD · University of Minnesota, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • United States

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