Obesity and Financial Incentives

Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: economic incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01629576

010902

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigate whether economic incentives help obese individuals to lose weight.

Enrollment: 700 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI above 30
• age between 18 anf 75
• registered residence in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg

Exclusion criteria

• considerable language barriers
• pregnancy
• psychological disorders
• eating disorders
• tumor disease within last five years
• abuse of alcohol
• abuse of drugs
• serious general diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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700 participants in 3 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

low reward

Experimental group

Description:

economic incentive

Treatment:

Other: economic incentive

Other: economic incentive

high reward

Experimental group

Description:

economic incentive

Treatment:

Other: economic incentive

Other: economic incentive