Summary

Eligibility
for people ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
Healthy Volunteers
healthy people welcome
Location
at San Francisco, California
Dates
study started
completion around
Principal Investigator
by Laura A Schmidt, Ph.DElissa Epel, Ph.D
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Laura A Schmidt
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Elissa Epel

Description

Summary

The purpose of the study is to test the impact of a multilevel workplace intervention (hospital-wide sales ban on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and individual-level brief counseling) on employee health.

Official Title

Multi-Level Trial of a Workplace Sales Ban of Sugary Beverages and Brief Motivational Counseling Intervention on Adiposity

Details

This double-randomized controlled trial of a multilevel workplace intervention that combines an employer-sponsored sales ban on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with brief counseling to support reduced consumption will test how well each intervention works alone, whether they work better in combination than separately, and whether or not changes in SSB cravings mediate these effects. Sutter Health worksites will be randomly assigned to either a control condition or to implement a sales ban on SSBs. Within all sites, employees will be randomized to receive/not receive a brief counseling intervention focused on reducing SSB consumption. Participants will complete self-report questionnaires, give blood samples, and provide measurements of waist circumference, height, and weight. These data will be analyzed to determine the effects of the interventions, both separately and in combination.

Keywords

Obesity, Abdominal, Insulin Sensitivity, Insulin Resistance, Abdominal Obesity, Workplace SSB sales ban, Brief Intervention

Eligibility

You can join if…

Open to people ages 18 years and up

  • Full-time employee who works on campus at one of the Sutter Health participating sites
  • Speaks and reads English
  • Consumes three or more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) a week
  • Agrees to participate in two fasting blood draws

You CAN'T join if...

  • Pregnant

Location

  • Sutter Health/California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute accepting new patients
    San Francisco California 94115 United States

Lead Scientists at UCSF

  • Laura A Schmidt, Ph.D
    My lab investigates the societal root causes of chronic disease in our current food system. We study the interplay between the processed food industry and the populations that experience health harms from its products. Our research informs new ways to prevent obesity, diabetes, and related cardiometabolic diseases by making food systems more conducive to health.
  • Elissa Epel, Ph.D
    Elissa Epel, Ph.D, is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, at University of California, San Francisco.

Details

Status
accepting new patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
ID
NCT05972109
Study Type
Interventional
Participants
Expecting 700 study participants
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