Workplace-Sponsored Program to Reduce Obesity

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Images of a Healthy Worksite-Preventing Weight Gain in the Workplace

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00123513
• Other study ID #: 196
• Secondary ID: R01HL079511
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 21, 2005
• Last updated: June 12, 2012
• Start date: September 2004
• Est. completion date: July 2009

Study information

• Verified date: June 2012
• Source: University of Rochester
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity strategy to gain a broad understanding of the social and cultural role of food and physical activity among workers. Perspectives on innovative interventions that are socially feasible and culturally acceptable will also be obtained. Health lifestyle promotion interventions addressing portion control, healthy nutrition, and increasing physical activity will be tested.

Description:

BACKGROUND:

Broad, population-based approaches are needed to stop or reverse the rise in obesity prevalence. According to the World Health Organization, obesity prevention can be achieved by promoting a healthy diet and a physically active lifestyle. A partnership with the Eastman Kodak Company has been developed to test a worksite intervention for obesity prevention in Rochester, New York.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

The overall goal of this study is to design a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity strategy based on participatory research to promote a healthy lifestyle and to stop the shift of the population body mass index (BMI) curve to the right. Six pairs of worksites will be randomized to either an intervention or control group. Two cross-sectional samples of employees within each worksite will be measured at baseline and at the end of the intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 3938
• Est. completion date: July 2009
• Est. primary completion date: July 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full-time employees in good health

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Obesity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Diet
Environmental changes in the food and physical activity environment. Cafeteria and vending machine changes, food brought from home, walking routes, and awareness building.
• Exercise
Increase routing physical activity, walking routes, stairs intervention, etc.
• Environment
Cafeteria and vending machine changes and identification of opportunities of physical activity.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Eastman Kodak Company	Rochester	New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Rochester	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	BMI		Measured at baseline and Year 2	No
Secondary	Number of serving of fruits and vegetables		Measured at baseline and Year 2	No
Secondary	Number of steps a day		Measured at baseline and Year 2	No