Clinical trial NCT01585480: Preventing Obesity in the Worksite: A Multi-Message, Multi-"Step" Approach
Official title: Preventing Obesity in the Worksite: A Multi-Message, Multi-"Step" Approach
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Keywords: Obesity
Weight Gain Prevention
Workplace
Intervention
Diet
Exercise
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Healthy Foods Healthy Lives
First posted: 2012-04-25
Enrollment: 499
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this research study is to develop, implement, and evaluate a multi-component obesity prevention program in a workplace setting. A quasi-experimental design will be utilized, with hospital employees receiving the intervention and clinic employees serving as the comparison group. It is hypothesized that the intervention group will see greater changes in healthier eating, increased participation in physical activity, and reduced risk for obesity (weight, BMI, waist circumference).

Detailed description: Over one-third of Americans are now considered obese. Efforts to prevent obesity involve changing the individual behaviors that contribute to obesity, mainly healthful eating and physical activity, as well as the social and physical context in which those behaviors take place. Due to their existing networks and available resources, worksites are a logical place to help individuals make healthy choices through health promotion efforts. The purpose of this project is to partner with a community hospital to plan, implement, and evaluate a multi-component obesity prevention program in their workplace. The prevention program will target individual and interpersonal determinants of eating behavior and physical activity, as well as the context in which these behaviors take place. This intervention will include four integrated components: (1) nutrition labeling (using stoplights, calories, and step equivalents) in the worksite cafeteria, and modifying the cafeteria environment, (2) distributing pedometers to employees, (3) persuasive media messaging, and (4) the use of "influentials" to address social norms around eating and physical activity behaviors. A quasi-experimental design will examine the effectiveness of this multi-component worksite obesity prevention program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Employee at one of the hospital/clinic locations participating in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* none

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Body Weight
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months
measure: Change in Waist Circumference
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 months,12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Eating Behaviors
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months
measure: Physical Activity
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Duluth
country: United States
facility: St. Luke's Hospital and Clinics
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Lara J LaCaille, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Minnesota
name: Jennifer F Schultz, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: LaCaille LJ, Schultz JF, Goei R, LaCaille RA, Dauner KN, de Souza R, Nowak AV, Regal R. Go!: results from a quasi-experimental obesity prevention trial with hospital employees. BMC Public Health. 2016 Feb 19;16:171. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2828-0.