MedTrace Logo

Promoting Employee Health Through The Worksite Food Environment

NCT02660086 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 602

Last updated 2021-12-01

Study results available
· View outcomes & findings →

Summary

This project tests a scalable and sustainable approach to weight gain prevention in a population of employees by using the worksite environment to deliver personalized feedback about worksite food purchases, daily calorie goals, social norms for healthy eating, and financial incentives for healthy food purchases. In the future, similar strategies could be adopted by other worksites, institutions, and food retailers and could contribute to the long-term environmental and social changes needed to reverse the obesity epidemic in the United States and worldwide.

The overall objective of ancillary studies added on to this project is to examine the psychological traits, cognitive skills, and genes that may influence the impact of the behavioral intervention to promote healthy diet and weight among employees at a large hospital worksite.

Conditions

  • Weight
  • Food Choice
  • Nutrition Intake

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Personalized nutrition feedback

Automated personalized nutrition feedback about cafeteria food purchases (weekly); social norms and small financial incentives to promote healthy purchases (monthly)

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

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

    collaborator NIH

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-30
Primary Completion
2020-03-31
Completion
2020-03-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT02660086 on ClinicalTrials.gov