Status:
COMPLETED
University Of Pennsylvania Weight Loss Study
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborating Sponsors:
Carnegie Mellon University
Harvard University
Conditions:
Weight Loss
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This is a 4-arm, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives to motivate and sustain long-term weight loss. The study will recruit eligible employees at a large h...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Aged 18 to 70 (inclusive)
- BMI between 30 and 50 (inclusive)
Exclusion
- Inability to consent
- No known Illiteracy and/or inability to speak, read, and write English
- Participation in another weight loss program
- Participation in another research study
- Current treatment for drug or alcohol use
- Consumption of 5 alcoholic drinks per day
- Myocardial infarction or stroke within the past 6 months
- Uncontrolled hypertension (defined as BP170 mm Hg systolic or BP110 mm Hg diastolic)
- Current addiction to prescription medicines or street drugs
- Serious psychiatric diagnoses (severe depression, schizophrenia)
- Pregnancy
- Diabetic and using any medicine besides metformin to control blood sugars
- 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 :
May 24 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
132 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01167634
Start Date
May 24 2011
End Date
July 1 2016
Last Update
August 23 2017
Active Locations (1)
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104