Trial reportAnnals of internal medicine2013
Individual- versus group-based financial incentives for weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial.
Trial report in Annals of internal medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 96 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Testing Strategies to Encourage Weight Loss in an Employer Setting
Steps to Eliminate Postoperative Problems
Financial Incentive Strategies for Weight Loss in Obese Patients Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Who cites it
96 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 202 citations in OpenAlex.
- Enhancing Weight Loss Programs: A Meta-Analysis of Financial Incentives and Behavior Change Techniques.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Dyad and group-based interventions in physical activity, diet, and weight loss: a systematic review of the evidence.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Occupational Health of Health-Care Workers with Overnutrition: Scoping Review with Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Incentive Programs for Goal Achievement on Healthy Diet, Weight Control and Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Describing workplace interventions aimed to improve health of staff in hospital settings - a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2022Pooled it
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- A Scoping Review of Behavioral Economic Interventions for Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Current diabetes reports · 2017Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Workplace Weight Management Interventions: a Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2016Pooled it
- Mobile Phone Apps to Promote Weight Loss and Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
- Development, Challenges, and Evolution of the Log2Lose Intervention for Weight Management: Randomized Controlled Digital Health Trial.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of goal-directed and outcome-based financial incentives for weight loss in low-income populations: the FIReWoRk randomized clinical trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2024Trial
- Small Monetary Incentives Lead to Greater Adherence in a Weight Loss Program.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2024Trial
- Effectiveness of Goal-Directed and Outcome-Based Financial Incentives for Weight Loss in Primary Care Patients With Obesity Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2023Trial
- Perspectives on the Form, Magnitude, Certainty, Target, and Frequency of Financial Incentives in a Weight Loss Program.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of financial incentives during weight-loss induction and maintenance in online group weight control.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- Effect of Financial Incentives and Environmental Strategies on Weight Loss in the Healthy Weigh Study: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2021Trial
- A randomized feasibility pilot trial of a financial incentives intervention for dietary self-monitoring and weight loss in adults with obesity.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- The effects of financial incentives on diabetes prevention program attendance and weight loss among low-income patients: the We Can Prevent Diabetes cluster-randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- Incentive programmes for smoking cessation: cluster randomized trial in workplaces in Thailand.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Trial
- Adding Financial Incentives to Online Group-Based Behavioral Weight Control: An RCT.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Trial
36 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundData on the effectiveness of employer-sponsored financial incentives for employee weight loss are limited.
objectiveTo test the effectiveness of 2 financial incentive designs for promoting weight loss among obese employees.
designRandomized, controlled trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01208350)
settingChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia.
participants105 employees with a body mass index between 30 and 40 kg/m2.
intervention24 weeks of monthly weigh-ins (control group; n = 35); individual incentive, designed as $100 per person per month for meeting or exceeding weight-loss goals (n = 35); and group incentive, designed as $500 per month split among participants within groups of 5 who met or exceeded weight-loss goals (n = 35). MEASUREMENTS: Weight loss after 24 weeks (primary outcome) and 36 weeks and changes in behavioral mediators of weight loss (secondary outcomes).
resultsGroup-incentive participants lost more weight than control participants (mean between-group difference, 4.4 kg [95% CI, 2.0 to 6.7 kg]; P < 0.001) and individual-incentive participants (mean between-group difference, 3.2 kg [CI, 0.9 to 5.5 kg]; P = 0.008). Twelve weeks after incentives ended and after adjustment for 3-group comparisons, group-incentive participants maintained greater weight loss than control group participants (mean between-group difference, 2.9 kg [CI, 0.5 to 5.3 kg]; P = 0.016) but not greater than individual-incentive participants (mean between-group difference, 2.7 kg [CI, 0.4 to 5.0 kg]; P = 0.024). LIMITATION: Single employer and short follow-up.
conclusionA group-based financial incentive was more effective than an individual incentive and monthly weigh-ins at promoting weight loss among obese employees at 24 weeks. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: National Institute on Aging.
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