University Of Pennsylvania Weight Loss Study

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

132

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 24, 2011

Primary Completion Date

March 15, 2012

Study Completion Date

July 31, 2016

Conditions
Weight Loss
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Deposit contract with a 1:1 match

Daily weigh-in for 24 weeks and if each daily goal met daily deposit amount is paid back with an additional matched amount equal to deposited amount. Final weigh-in at 36 weeks with no financial incentive or deposit made.

BEHAVIORAL

Deposit contract with a 2:1 match

Daily weigh-in for 24 weeks and if each daily goal met daily deposit amount is paid back with an additional matched amount twice the amount equal to deposited amount. Final weigh-in at 36 weeks with no financial incentive or deposit made.

BEHAVIORAL

Deposit Contract with no match

Daily weigh-in for 24 weeks and if each daily goal met the daily deposit amount is paid back. Final weigh-in at 36 weeks with no financial incentive or deposit made.

Trial Locations (1)

19104

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Carnegie Mellon University

OTHER

collaborator

Harvard University

OTHER

collaborator

incentaHEALTH

INDUSTRY

collaborator

McKinsey & Company

UNKNOWN

lead

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER