Helping Employees Lose Pounds

NCT02853877 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: HUM00107647
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 62
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives and messaging tailored to individual goals and aspirations to promote and sustain weight loss. This is a 2-arm randomized controlled trial that will recruit eligible employees at a large university to participate in a 3-month weight loss program, followed by a 3-month follow-up period. The primary outcome will be change in autonomous motivation for weight loss. The study hypothesis is that intervention group participants will have a greater increase in autonomous motivation for weight loss than participants in the control group at 12 weeks.

Conditions

Weight Loss

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in autonomous motivation as measured by the Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire

  12 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in weight as measured by participant weight measurements using Withings scales

  12 weeks and 24 weeks

Other Outcomes (6)

• Change in autonomous motivation as measured by the Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire

  24 weeks

• Change in physical activity as measured by the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire

  12 weeks and 24 weeks

• Change in eating behaviors as measured by the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire

  12 weeks and 24 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Weekly Incentive

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in the Weekly Incentive arm will be asked to weigh in each week during a 12 week intervention period. They will receive tailored messages and have an opportunity to win a financial reward each week they meet their weight loss goal. Participants will be asked to complete a final weight measurement at week 24.

Behavioral: Weekly Incentive

Weekly Weigh-In

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in the Weekly Weigh-In arm will be asked to weigh in each week during a 12 week intervention period. Participants will be asked to complete a final weight measurement at week 24.

Interventions

Weekly Incentive BEHAVIORAL

The tailored incentives intervention aims to assess the impact of tailored messaging and financial incentives on weight loss among obese employees.

Weekly Incentive

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Interested in losing weight
• Body Mass Index between 30 and 40 kg/m2
• Have wireless internet at home
• Have Android or iOS smart device
• Willing to record themselves weighing in on a scale or let a family member record them weighing in on a scale

You may not qualify if:

• Pregnant or lactating, or intending to become pregnant in the next 6 months
• Taking medication (other than metformin) for diabetes to control blood sugar
• Having a serious psychiatric diagnosis, unstable medical conditions or experienced a heart attack or stroke in the past 6 months
• Having a history of drug or alcohol abuse or addiction to prescription medications

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Michigan: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Weight Loss

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Body Weight Changes; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Jeffrey T Kullgren, MD,MS,MPH

  University of Michigan

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 27, 2016
• First Posted: August 3, 2016
• Study Start: August 2, 2016
• Primary Completion: January 4, 2017
• Study Completion: April 7, 2017
• Last Updated: April 18, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)