UPHS Weight Loss Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01800591

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

201

Starts

2013-04-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults age 18-70
• BMI of 30 or above

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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