Clinical trial NCT03164330: Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Official title: Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Employee Health and Well-being
Keywords: Health Care
Workplace Wellness
Preventative Health Care
Health Costs
Lead sponsor: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
name: University of Chicago
name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
name: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
name: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
name: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
name: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
First posted: 2017-05-23
Enrollment: 4834
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Our primary analysis compares outcomes between a control group and six (6) treatment groups. Our secondary analysis compares pre-determined characteristics across members of the treatment group who adopt the intervention and those who do not.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Wellness Program participation
timeFrame: First year of study
measure: Wellness Program participation
timeFrame: Second year of study
measure: Selection into treatment by baseline health spending
timeFrame: 13 months prior to study
measure: Selection into treatment by self-reported health
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by gender
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by Age
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by race
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by salary quartile
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by self-reported health utilization
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by smoking status
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Selection into treatment by chronic condition
timeFrame: Baseline measure
measure: Health Insurance Spending
timeFrame: 12 months and 24-30 months following study
measure: Employment and Productivity
timeFrame: 12 months and 24-30 months following study
measure: Health Status and Behaviors
timeFrame: 12 months and 24-30 months following study
measure: Height
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
measure: Weight
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
measure: Waist circumference
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
measure: Resting blood pressure
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
measure: Blood glucose
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
measure: Cholesterol levels
timeFrame: 1 year following study, 2 years following study
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: University of Chicago
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Chicago
name: Damon Jones, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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