Incentivizing Behavior Change Skills to Promote Weight Loss
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Obesity
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of providing incentives to people enrolled in a weight-loss program for dietary self-monitoring and/or interim weight loss.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02691260
- Run by
- Duke University
- People needed
- 105
- Starts
- 2016-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-08-05
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- desire to lose weight;
- agree to attend visits per protocol;
- access to telephone and transportation;
- English speaking;
- able to complete study measures;
- smart phone with data and texting plan;
- body mass index 30 kg/m2 or greater
You may not qualify if…
- pregnancy, breastfeeding, or lack of birth control if premenopausal
- dementia, excessive alcohol use, or psychiatric illness
- weight loss >4.5 kg in month prior to screening
- weight > 380 lb (due to limit of cellular scale)
- enrollment in other weight loss program
- residing in nursing home or receiving home health care
- unable to attend weight loss group at scheduled times
- impaired hearing
- medication other than metformin, incretin mimetics and incretin enhances for type 2 diabetes
- unstable heart disease in 3 months prior to screening
- furosemide 40 mg or higher (or equivalent)
- chronic kidney disease
- 2 or more errors on cognitive screener
- blood pressure ≥160/100 mmHg
Where it is running
- Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.