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Internet Assisted Obesity Treatment Enhanced With Financial Incentives

NCT02688621 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 418

Last updated 2021-10-29

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Summary

The investigators propose a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether the addition of financial incentives to a high-quality, online behavioral weight loss intervention produces better weight losses than the online treatment alone.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet Only

18 month behavioral weight loss intervention delivered online

BEHAVIORAL

Internet + Incentives

18 month behavioral weight loss intervention delivered online with the possibility of earning incentives for losing weight and performing weight loss behaviors including monitoring food intake, exercising, and daily weighing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of South Carolina

    collaborator OTHER

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

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Vermont

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Delia Smith West, PhD · University of South Carolina

  • Jean R Harvey, PhD · University of Vermont

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-11
Primary Completion
2019-08-02
Completion
2019-08-02

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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