NCT02300493

Four Year Weight Change of Cornell Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Examining the effect of daily self-weighing on the ability of student to prevent from gaining weight during their four years at Cornell.

Detailed description

A group of freshman volunteers were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Both groups were given an internet based scale (Withings). The experimental group was asked to weigh themselves daily. The controls were asked to weigh themselves three times within one week every six months in response to being contacted by our researchers.

Conditions

• Weight Gain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental	Asked to weigh themselves

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2014-11-25
• Last updated: 2022-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States