UPHS Weight Loss Study
4 mai 2015 mis à jour par: University of Pennsylvania
UPHS Weight Loss Study: Evaluating Methods to Use Health Benefits Design to Encourage Employee Weight Loss
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.
Aperçu de l'étude
Statut
Complété
Les conditions
Intervention / Traitement
Description détaillée
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.
Type d'étude
Interventionnel
Inscription (Réel)
201
Phase
- N'est pas applicable
Contacts et emplacements
Cette section fournit les coordonnées de ceux qui mènent l'étude et des informations sur le lieu où cette étude est menée.
Lieux d'étude
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, États-Unis, 19104
- University of Pennsylvania
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Critères de participation
Les chercheurs recherchent des personnes qui correspondent à une certaine description, appelée critères d'éligibilité. Certains exemples de ces critères sont l'état de santé général d'une personne ou des traitements antérieurs.
Critère d'éligibilité
Âges éligibles pour étudier
18 ans à 70 ans (Adulte, Adulte plus âgé)
Accepte les volontaires sains
Non
Sexes éligibles pour l'étude
Tout
La description
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
Plan d'étude
Cette section fournit des détails sur le plan d'étude, y compris la façon dont l'étude est conçue et ce que l'étude mesure.
Comment l'étude est-elle conçue ?
Détails de conception
- Objectif principal: Recherche sur les services de santé
- Répartition: Randomisé
- Modèle interventionnel: Affectation parallèle
- Masquage: Seul
Armes et Interventions
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Aucune intervention: Control Arm
No other financial incentive other than for enrollment, 6-month weigh in, and completion.
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Expérimental: 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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Expérimental: 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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Expérimental: 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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Que mesure l'étude ?
Principaux critères de jugement
Mesure des résultats |
Délai |
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Total pounds of weight lost
Délai: 12 months
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12 months
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Mesures de résultats secondaires
Mesure des résultats |
Délai |
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Weight loss of 5% of initial weight
Délai: 12 months
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12 months
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Autres mesures de résultats
Mesure des résultats |
Délai |
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Improvements in eating and physical activity habits
Délai: 12 months
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12 months
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Collaborateurs et enquêteurs
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Publications et liens utiles
La personne responsable de la saisie des informations sur l'étude fournit volontairement ces publications. Il peut s'agir de tout ce qui concerne l'étude.
Publications générales
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- Stewart ST, Cutler DM, Rosen AB. Forecasting the effects of obesity and smoking on U.S. life expectancy. N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 3;361(23):2252-60. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa0900459.
- McGinnis JM, Foege WH. Actual causes of death in the United States. JAMA. 1993 Nov 10;270(18):2207-12.
- McGinnis JM, Williams-Russo P, Knickman JR. The case for more active policy attention to health promotion. Health Aff (Millwood). 2002 Mar-Apr;21(2):78-93. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.2.78.
- Schroeder SA. Shattuck Lecture. We can do better--improving the health of the American people. N Engl J Med. 2007 Sep 20;357(12):1221-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa073350. No abstract available.
- Claxton G, DiJulio B, Whitmore H, Pickreign J, McHugh M, Finder B, Osei-Anto A. Job-based health insurance: costs climb at a moderate pace. Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Nov-Dec;28(6):w1002-12. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.w1002. Epub 2009 Sep 15.
- Heinen L, Darling H. Addressing obesity in the workplace: the role of employers. Milbank Q. 2009 Mar;87(1):101-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00549.x.
- Finkelstein EA, Linnan LA, Tate DF, Birken BE. A pilot study testing the effect of different levels of financial incentives on weight loss among overweight employees. J Occup Environ Med. 2007 Sep;49(9):981-9. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31813c6dcb.
- Volpp KG. Paying people to lose weight and stop smoking. LDI Issue Brief. 2009 Feb;14(3):1-4.
- Volpp KG, John LK, Troxel AB, Norton L, Fassbender J, Loewenstein G. Financial incentive-based approaches for weight loss: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2008 Dec 10;300(22):2631-7. doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.804.
- Hallal PC, Victora CG. Reliability and validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 Mar;36(3):556. doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000117161.66394.07. No abstract available.
Dates d'enregistrement des études
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Dates principales de l'étude
Début de l'étude
1 avril 2013
Achèvement primaire (Réel)
1 avril 2015
Achèvement de l'étude (Réel)
1 avril 2015
Dates d'inscription aux études
Première soumission
15 février 2013
Première soumission répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité
26 février 2013
Première publication (Estimation)
27 février 2013
Mises à jour des dossiers d'étude
Dernière mise à jour publiée (Estimation)
6 mai 2015
Dernière mise à jour soumise répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité
4 mai 2015
Dernière vérification
1 décembre 2013
Plus d'information
Termes liés à cette étude
Termes MeSH pertinents supplémentaires
Autres numéros d'identification d'étude
- 817128
Informations sur les médicaments et les dispositifs, documents d'étude
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