Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Employee Health and Well-being
In brief
Workplace wellness programs have become a $6 billion industry and are widely touted as a way to improve employee well-being, reduce health care costs by promoting prevention, and increase workplace productivity. Yet, there is little rigorous evidence available to support these claims, partly because the voluntary nature of these programs means that participants may differ from nonparticipants for reasons unrelated to the causal effects of the wellness program. The investigators will implement a randomized control trial to identify the effects of incentives on wellness program participation, produce causal estimates of the effect of wellness programs on health outcomes, determine what kinds of employees benefit from wellness programs the most, and test for the presence of peer effects in wellness participation.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03164330
- Run by
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- People needed
- 4834
- Starts
- 2016-07-11
- Expected to finish
- 2020-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-04-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Benefits eligible employees at UIUC. Physically located on UIUC campus, not terminated, eligible for benefits.
You may not qualify if…
- Members of the research team, employees directly involved with the approval or implementation of the study, family members of the research team.
Where it is running
- University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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