New Hampshire Medicaid Wellness Incentive Program (NHWIP)

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Dependence; Mental Illness; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: NH Medicaid Incentives Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02515981

23336

Details and patient eligibility

About

The New Hampshire Medicaid Wellness Incentive Program (WIP) will address both the health disparity and increased costs by providing incentivized health promotion programs to overweight or obese and/or tobacco-smoking Medicaid beneficiaries receiving services at New Hampshire's 10 regional Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs).

Full description

In the New Hampshire Medicaid Wellness Incentive Program, multiple program options will fall into two categories: (1) Supported Fitness and Weight Management and (2) Supported Smoking Cessation. Eligible participants are able to participate in 1 or both of the programs. The program options for Supported Fitness and Weight Management are: 1. Fitness Club Membership for 12 months, 2. Fitness Club Membership plus weekly meetings with a Health Mentor for 12 months (In SHAPE), 3. Weight Watchers Membership for 12 months, 4. In SHAPE plus Weight Watchers for 12 months. The options for Supported Smoking Cessation are: 1. Prescriber meeting to discuss smoking cessation treatment options, 2. Prescriber meeting plus NH State Tobacco Helpline, 3. Prescriber meeting plus Telephone-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation. Vouchers for memberships to community fitness centers and formal weight loss programs will be provided, as well as incentives for participation and positive outcomes. An equipoise stratified randomization design will be used to preserve the research benefits of randomization while maintaining the highly valued opportunity for consumer choice. Research assessments will be conducted at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months.

Enrollment: 2,800 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for smoking intervention and weight management intervention:

• Participants must be Medicaid recipients receiving mental health treatment at one of the participating study sites in New Hampshire.
• 18 years or older

Additional Inclusion Criteria for smoking intervention only:

*Smoking 5 or more cigarettes a day or a carbon monoxide level of 5 or higher at screening.

Additional Inclusion Criteria for weight management only:

*Body Mass Index of 30 or higher or 25 or higher and sedentary lifestyle.

Exclusion Criteria for both interventions:

• Diagnosis of dementia or terminal illness (expected to result in death in 1 year or less)
• Nursing home
• Inability to speak or understand English

Additional exclusion Criteria for weight management only:

• Previous participation in the In SHAPE program
• Active eating disorder diagnosis
• Pregnancy

Additional exclusion Criteria for smoking intervention only:

*Active alcohol or drug dependence with use in the past 30 days

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,800 participants in 2 patient groups

Incentives

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomly assigned to the incentive arm, will receive cash incentives for engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: NH Medicaid Incentives Program

No Incentives

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomly assigned to the no incentives arm, will not receive cash incentives for engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: NH Medicaid Incentives Program