Illinois Workplace Wellness Study

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Employee Health and Well-being

Treatments: Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - High Compensation; Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program; Behavioral: Wellness Activities - Low Compensation; Behavioral: Wellness Activities - High Compensation; Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - Moderate Compensation; Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - No Compensation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03164330

R01AG050701 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2016-06638 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

0008

73730 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 4,834 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Benefits eligible employees at UIUC. Physically located on UIUC campus, not terminated, eligible for benefits.

Exclusion criteria

• Members of the research team, employees directly involved with the approval or implementation of the study, family members of the research team.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4,834 participants in 7 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group takes a baseline survey, and thereafter has minimal interaction with the project, until a follow-up biometric screening is conducted during the one-year follow-up.

A25

Experimental group

Description:

Group A25 is offered no compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and low compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - No compensation, Wellness Activities - low compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - Low Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - No Compensation

A75

Experimental group

Description:

Group A75 is offered no compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and high compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - No compensation, Wellness Activities - high compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - High Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - No Compensation

B25

Experimental group

Description:

Group B25 is offered moderate compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and low compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - moderate compensation, Wellness Activities - high compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - Moderate Compensation

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - Low Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program

B75

Experimental group

Description:

Group B75 is offered moderate compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and high compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - moderate compensation, Wellness Activities - high compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - Moderate Compensation

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - High Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program

C25

Experimental group

Description:

Group C25 is offered high compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and low compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - high compensation, Wellness Activities - high compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - High Compensation

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - Low Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program

C75

Experimental group

Description:

Group C75 is offered high compensation for completing a biometric screening and HRA, and high compensation for each completed wellness course in the fall or spring of the study. Interventions: Workplace Wellness Program, Biometric Screening/HRA - high compensation Wellness Activities - high compensation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Biometric Screening/HRA - High Compensation

Behavioral: Wellness Activities - High Compensation

Behavioral: Workplace Wellness Program