About this trial
The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an outreach campaign designed to increase engagement with Pack Health, a Quest Diagnostics wellness program providing individual health coaching for weight management and diabetes prevention. While employee wellness and disease-management programs have the potential to improve wellbeing and reduce healthcare costs, their effectiveness is often undermined by low engagement and selection bias in participant comparisons. This study will test whether an outreach approach that auto-enrolls eligible individuals-employees and their spouses/domestic partners-into the program, with the option to opt out, can increase engagement and improve health outcomes compared to the standard invitation-based approach.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Provided informed consent.
Employees/spouses/domestic partners over the age of 18
High waist circumference (>35 inches for women and >40 inches for men)
High triglycerides (≥150 mg/dl)
Disqualifiers
1. Anyone under the age of 21. They will not be part of the study and will receive messages as if they were in the control group.
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Binge-eating disorder
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Opt-out framing
- Opt-in framing
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lead sponsor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Collaborator
Quest Diagnostics-Nichols Insitute
Collaborator