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The Effect of Activities-based Subsidy on Body Fat Loss

NCT04954547 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2022-04-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This 24-week-long study compares the effectiveness of two types of incentives for weight loss: 1) conditional subsidy 2) financial goal reward. Target participants are overweight female Singaporeans or Permanent Residents who are otherwise healthy.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Subsidy Treatment

Participants will be awarded $50 for reaching the PBF goal at the end of 12 weeks. Regardless of goal-attainment, participants will be reimbursed 50% of approved health-improving expenses up to a cap of $300 in the 12 weeks. The subsidy is voluntary and flexible, with no direct intervention from researchers - participants will submit receipts and simply be reimbursed at the end of the experiment (subject to approval from the research team).

BEHAVIORAL

Cash Treatment

Participants will be awarded $350 for reaching the PBF goal at the end of 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Noah Lim

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Noah Lim, PhD · The Global Asia Institute, The National University of Singapore

  • Andrea Chung, PhD · Booz Allen Hamilton

  • Ta-Cheng Huang, PhD · The Global Asia Institute, The National University of Singapore

  • Kegon Tan, PhD · University of Rochester

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-23
Primary Completion
2022-12-31
Completion
2022-12-31

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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