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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
62
The tailored incentives intervention aims to assess the impact of tailored messaging and financial incentives on weight loss among obese employees.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Change in autonomous motivation as measured by the Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire
Time frame: 12 weeks
Change in weight as measured by participant weight measurements using Withings scales
Time frame: 12 weeks and 24 weeks
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