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Helping Employees Lose Pounds

NCT02853877 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2017-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives and messaging tailored to individual goals and aspirations to promote and sustain weight loss. This is a 2-arm randomized controlled trial that will recruit eligible employees at a large university to participate in a 3-month weight loss program, followed by a 3-month follow-up period. The primary outcome will be change in autonomous motivation for weight loss.

The study hypothesis is that intervention group participants will have a greater increase in autonomous motivation for weight loss than participants in the control group at 12 weeks.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Weekly Incentive

The tailored incentives intervention aims to assess the impact of tailored messaging and financial incentives on weight loss among obese employees.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jeffrey T Kullgren, MD,MS,MPH · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-02
Primary Completion
2017-01-04
Completion
2017-04-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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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.

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