Status:
COMPLETED
Testing Strategies to Encourage Weight Loss in an Employer Setting
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborating Sponsors:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
incentaHEALTH
Conditions:
Weight Loss
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This is a 3-arm pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two novel ways of structuring financial incentives to motivate and sustain long-term weight loss. The study will recr...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Aged 18 to 70 (inclusive)
- BMI between 30 and 40 (inclusive)
Exclusion
- Inability to consent
- Illiteracy and/or inability to speak, read, and write English
- 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
- 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 :
March 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
105 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01208350
Start Date
March 1 2011
End Date
August 1 2014
Last Update
September 8 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104