Four Year Weight Change of Cornell Students

Cornell University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Gain

Treatments: Behavioral: Experimental

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02300493

1108002406

Details and patient eligibility

About

Examining the effect of daily self-weighing on the ability of student to prevent from gaining weight during their four years at Cornell.

Full description

A group of freshman volunteers were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Both groups were given an internet based scale (Withings). The experimental group was asked to weigh themselves daily. The controls were asked to weigh themselves three times within one week every six months in response to being contacted by our researchers.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

weigh themselves daily

Treatment:

Behavioral: Experimental

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Weigh themselves every six months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Experimental