ShapeUp Empower Study

Lifespan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Financial Incentives for Engagement; Behavioral: ShapeUp Empower; Behavioral: Weight Loss Apps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02518217

ShapeUpEmpower2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled trial will evaluate patterns of use and health outcomes of the ShapeUp Empower online program with and without financial incentives for program engagement.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-70 years
• Body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 45 kg/m2
• English speaking
• Have access to the Internet via a computer and smartphone compatible with Empower and Commercial Apps, and basic knowledge of how to use this technology.
• Agree to sharing of data entered in the Empower and Commercial Apps intervention systems.
• Agree to ShapeUp's privacy policy and user agreement.

Exclusion criteria

• Report health problems that make weight loss or unsupervised exercise unsafe or unreasonable
• Report a heart condition, chest pain during periods of activity or rest, or loss of consciousness on the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire
• Are currently pregnant or breastfeeding, or intend to become pregnant in the next 12 months
• Are planning to move outside of the greater Providence area within the next 12 months
• Report any cognitive or physical limitations that preclude use of a personal computer
• Have participated in a study conducted by the WCDRC in the past 2 years
• Have followed a commercial weight-loss program within the previous 6 months or who are currently following a commercial weight loss program
• Weight loss of ≥ 5% of initial body weight in the last 6 months
• History of clinically diagnosed eating disorder excluding Binge Eating Disorder.
• Previous surgical procedure for weight loss
• Currently taking weight loss medication\
• Treatment of cancer within the last 6 months
• Have any medical or psychological condition, or life situation, that would make participation in a weight loss program inadvisable in the opinion of the principal investigator.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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130 participants in 3 patient groups

Apps Only

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Weight Loss Apps

ShapeUp Empower

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Weight Loss Apps

Behavioral: ShapeUp Empower

ShapeUp Empower + Incentives

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentives for Engagement

Behavioral: Weight Loss Apps

Behavioral: ShapeUp Empower