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- Yhdysvaltain kliinisten tutkimusten rekisteri
- Kliininen tutkimus NCT01800591
UPHS Weight Loss Study
UPHS Weight Loss Study: Evaluating Methods to Use Health Benefits Design to Encourage Employee Weight Loss
Tutkimuksen yleiskatsaus
Yksityiskohtainen kuvaus
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 about their use in health benefits design. The goal of this study is to determine whether a financial incentive program delivered to obese University of Pennsylvania Health System employees can effectively encourage weight loss when compared to changes in health benefit design.
This is a randomized controlled trial involving financial incentives with four study arms: control, delayed gratification, immediate gratification, and financial incentive with frequent feedback. Participation in this study will last about 12 months.
The primary goal of the study is to test the effects of a novel financial incentive program using a lottery with frequent feedback to normal benefit design structures.
Opintotyyppi
Ilmoittautuminen (Todellinen)
Vaihe
- Ei sovellettavissa
Yhteystiedot ja paikat
Opiskelupaikat
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Yhdysvallat, 19104
- University of Pennsylvania
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Osallistumiskriteerit
Kelpoisuusvaatimukset
Opintokelpoiset iät
Hyväksyy terveitä vapaaehtoisia
Sukupuolet, jotka voivat opiskella
Kuvaus
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults age 18-70
- BMI of 30 or above
Exclusion Criteria:
- 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
Opintosuunnitelma
Miten tutkimus on suunniteltu?
Suunnittelun yksityiskohdat
- Ensisijainen käyttötarkoitus: Terveyspalvelututkimus
- Jako: Satunnaistettu
- Inventiomalli: Rinnakkaistehtävä
- Naamiointi: Yksittäinen
Aseet ja interventiot
Osallistujaryhmä / Arm |
Interventio / Hoito |
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Ei väliintuloa: Control Arm
No other financial incentive other than for enrollment, 6-month weigh in, and completion.
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Kokeellinen: Delayed gratification
In addition to the standard enrollment, 6-month, and completion incentives, if the subject loses 5% of their initial weight by the end of the study, they will receive an annual discount (distributed across bi-weekly pay periods) for 12 months beginning after the 12-month study ends.
Their premium will return to normal price after this 12-month discount ends.
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Kokeellinen: Immediate gratification
In addition to the standard enrollment, 6-month, and completion incentives, the subject will be told that they can weigh in again any time before the study ends when they think they have lost 5% of their initial body weight.
If they did meet their 5% goal, they will begin receiving a bi-weekly premium discount during the next pay period for a total duration of 12 months.
Subjects that do not meet the 5% cut off during a weigh in are allowed to re-weigh themselves as many times as they like although they are encouraged to do so when they think they have met their target weight.
Their premium goes back to normal price after this 12-month discount ends.
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Kokeellinen: Financial incentive with frequent feedback
In addition to the standard enrollment, 6-month, and completion incentives, the subject will be asked to weigh in on the IncentaHEALTH scales everyday they are at work.
These subjects will participate in a daily lottery with the possibility of winning the same amount as the discount in Arms 2 and 3 over the course of the study.
The subject can choose to select or be designated a two digit number that ranges from 00 to 99.
Each day a lottery will be held and the subject will be given a 1% chance of matching both digits or an 18% chance of matching one digit.
In order to get the lottery winnings, the subject must meet a weight goal that consistently decreases to accumulate to a 5% weight loss by the 6 month mark.
After 6 months, the subject will receive the lottery winnings if they maintain that target weight (initial weight minus 5%) until the end of the 12-month study.
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Mitä tutkimuksessa mitataan?
Ensisijaiset tulostoimenpiteet
Tulosmittaus |
Aikaikkuna |
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Total pounds of weight lost
Aikaikkuna: 12 months
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12 months
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Toissijaiset tulostoimenpiteet
Tulosmittaus |
Aikaikkuna |
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Weight loss of 5% of initial weight
Aikaikkuna: 12 months
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12 months
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Muut tulostoimenpiteet
Tulosmittaus |
Aikaikkuna |
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Improvements in eating and physical activity habits
Aikaikkuna: 12 months
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12 months
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Yhteistyökumppanit ja tutkijat
Sponsori
Julkaisuja ja hyödyllisiä linkkejä
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