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The Impact of Employee Wellness Programs

NCT03167658 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48664

Last updated 2021-09-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There is great public and private interest in the use of workplace wellness programs to reduce health care spending, improve health outcomes, and enhance productivity for employees. However, there is little rigorous evidence on the effects of wellness programs. This study partners with a large multi-state U.S. employer (BJ's Wholesale Club) and an experienced wellness vendor (Wellness Workdays) to evaluate a multi-prong workplace wellness program, including components such as nutrition counseling, fitness challenges, and stress management workshops. The wellness program will be delivered by a team of experts including Registered Dieticians, and will include financial rewards for participation. The program will be available to employees in initially 20 of BJ's 200 worksites, and later expanded to 25 worksites. These worksites have been randomly selected, allowing a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the effects of the wellness program. Data will be collected on a wide array of outcomes from multiple sources, including on-site biometric screenings and surveys, employment records, and health insurance claims for employees at both treatment and control worksites.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior
  • Disease, Chronic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Workplace wellness program

Multi-prong workplace wellness program, with components such as nutrition counseling, fitness challenges, and stress management workshops, including supports and incentives.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Chicago

    collaborator OTHER

  • Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zirui Song, MD, PhD · Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2021-06-30

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