Automated Behavioral Workplace Intervention to Prevent Weight Gain and Improve Diet: The ChooseWell 365 Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Personalized interventions that leverage workplace data and environments could improve effectiveness, sustainability, and scalability of employee wellness programs.

Objective

To test an automated behavioral intervention to prevent weight gain and improve diet using employee cafeteria purchasing data.

Design, setting, and participants

This individual-level randomized clinical trial of a 12-month intervention with 12 months of follow-up was conducted among employees of a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, who purchased food at on-site cafeterias that used traffic-light labels (ie, green indicates healthy; yellow, less healthy; red, unhealthy). Participants were enrolled September 2016 to February 2018. Data were analyzed from May to September 2020.

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SUBMITTER: Thorndike AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8185595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature