Online Resources to Manage Obesity and Health Risks in an Employee Wellness Program

• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01122420
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 12
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 39
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 0.3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether different types of online health tools can aid overweight individuals in reducing their weight and managing their cardiovascular risk factors in the context of an employee wellness program.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Obesity	Other: Goal-Setting Tool; Other: Health Web Sites	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 12 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Participant)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Online Resources to Manage Obesity and Health Risks in an Employee Wellness Program
• Study Start Date: May 1, 2010
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Aug 1, 2013
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2013

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Goal-Setting Tool	Other: Goal-Setting Tool; Access to an online health-related goal-setting tool through the MyHealthAtVanderbilt patient portal
Active Comparator: Health Web Sites	Other: Health Web Sites; Access to publicly available health-related web sites

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Change in body mass index [At enrollment and at 6 months]

2. Change in excess body weight [At enrollment and at 6 months]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 65 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Vanderbilt University employee

• Completion of the 2009 Go For the Gold Health Risk Assessment (HRA)

• Obesity defined by BMI > 30

• Identification of an additional risk factor on the HRA by either (a) a personal history of diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol or (b) a reported cholesterol >= 240 mg/dl, blood glucose >= 126 mg/dl, a systolic blood pressure >= 140 mm Hg, or a diastolic blood pressure >= 90 mm Hg

• Permission to be contacted regarding health on the HRA

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant females and those who become pregnant prior to completion of the study

• Age younger than 18 years or older than 65 years

• Non English speaking individuals

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Vanderbilt University	Nashville	Tennessee	United States	37232

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Vanderbilt University

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Gretchen P Jackson, M.D., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01122420
• Other Study ID Numbers: 100021
• First Posted: May 13, 2010
• Last Update Posted: Aug 22, 2013
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2013

• Keywords provided by Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University: Obesity
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Obesity

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 22, 2013