Obesity and Financial Incentives

Early Phase 1UnknownNCT01629576

Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research700 enrolled

Overview

Investigate whether economic incentives help obese individuals to lose weight.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

700

Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

economic incentiveOTHER

economic incentive for weight loss

economic incentiveOTHER

economic incentive for weight loss

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 75 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * BMI above 30 * age between 18 anf 75 * registered residence in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg Exclusion Criteria: * considerable language barriers * pregnancy * psychological disorders * eating disorders * tumor disease within last five years * abuse of alcohol * abuse of drugs * serious general diseases

Locations (1)

Unnamed facility

Bad Kissingen, Baden-Würrttemberg, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

bodyweight

Time frame: 22 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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