The Impact of Workplace Food and Beverage Choices on Health and Wellness

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Health and Wellness

Treatments: Other: Healthy Beverage Initiative

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03431051

Healthy Beverage Initiative

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is designed to determine if instituting a Healthy Beverage Initiative (HBI) at hospitals influences health and wellness of employees over a 12 month period.

Full description

To examine whether HBI is associated with decreased adiposity over a 12-month time period, in comparison to individuals identically assessed but not exposed to a HBI. Specifically, do those exposed to the HBI decrease in measures of adiposity, BMI, and sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) intake? Do they decrease more in those measures as compared to those not exposed to the HBI?

Enrollment: 648 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participant speaks and reads English.
• The participant consumes three or more sugar-sweetened beverages a week.
• The participant expects to be able to participate for all 3 visits (baseline, 6 months, and 12 months).

Exclusion criteria

The participant is planning an extended leave of absence and/or family medical leave of absence over the next 12 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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648 participants in 2 patient groups

Healthy Beverage Initiative

Active Comparator group

Description:

A Healthy Beverage Initiative and health education will be implemented at two hospital campuses.

Treatment:

Other: Healthy Beverage Initiative

Control Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

No change in beverages or education at two hospital campuses.