Four Year Weight Change of Cornell Students

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02300493

Enrollment

200

Registered

2014-11-25

Start date

2013-01-31

Completion date

2016-06-30

Last updated

2022-03-22

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Conditions

Weight Gain

Keywords

among college students

Brief 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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALExperimental

Asked to weigh themselves

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 25 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Healthy

Exclusion criteria

* Pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Body Weight	3 1/2 year	weight gain

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026