Status:
COMPLETED
UPHS Weight Loss Study
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to compare a novel approach using financial incentives to changes in health benefit design and their impact on employee weight loss.
Detailed Description
Employers are increasingly looking for opportunities to encourage weight loss among employees. While studies have shown that financial incentives can effectively encourage weight loss, little is known...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Adults age 18-70
- BMI of 30 or above
Exclusion
- Inability to consent
- Illiteracy and/or inability to speak, read, and write English
- Participation in another research study
- Conditions that would make participation unsafe:
- Current treatment for drug or alcohol use
- Consumption of at least 5 alcoholic drinks per day
- Myocardial infarction or stroke within the past 6 months
- Current addiction to prescription medicines or street drugs
- Serious psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., severe major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia)
- Pregnant or currently breastfeeding
- Diabetic and using any medicine besides metformin to control blood glucose
- Metastatic cancer
- Unstable medical conditions that would likely prevent the subject from completing the study
- Previous diagnosis of an eating disorder
- History of unsafe weight loss behaviors such as binging or the use of laxatives
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
201 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01800591
Start Date
April 1 2013
End Date
April 1 2015
Last Update
May 6 2015
Active Locations (1)
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104