Wellness Program Outreach and Effectiveness

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age21+
SponsorMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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

2,000 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lead sponsor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Collaborator

Quest Diagnostics-Nichols Insitute

Collaborator