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Incentivizing Behavior Change Skills to Promote Weight Loss

NCT02691260 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 105

Last updated 2019-08-05

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of providing incentives to people enrolled in a weight-loss program for dietary self-monitoring and/or interim weight loss.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

incentives for dietary self-monitoring

Participants will receive intermittent financial incentives for recording their dietary intake on a dietary mobile phone application.

BEHAVIORAL

incentives for interim weight loss

Participants will receive intermittent financial incentives for losing an expected amount of weight based weight obtained weekly.

BEHAVIORAL

incentives for both

Participants will receive intermittent financial incentives for recording their dietary intake on a dietary mobile phone application and for losing an expected amount of weight based on weight obtained weekly.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ryan J Shaw, PhD, RN · Duke Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2018-05-31
Completion
2018-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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